Breadcrumb Plugin up to 1.5.32 on WordPress Shortcode Attribute cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Breadcrumb Plugin up to 1.5.32 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to cross site scripting. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-4836. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Breadcrumb Plugin up to 1.5.32 on WordPress (WordPress Plugin). It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Breadcrumb WordPress plugin before 1.5.33 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in the page, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks which could be used against high privilege users such as admins.

The weakness was shared 02/06/2023. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-4836 since 12/29/2022. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

Upgrading to version 1.5.33 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Breadcrumb Plugin

Version

• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.2
• 1.5.3
• 1.5.4
• 1.5.5
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.5.10
• 1.5.11
• 1.5.12
• 1.5.13
• 1.5.14
• 1.5.15
• 1.5.16
• 1.5.17
• 1.5.18
• 1.5.19
• 1.5.20
• 1.5.21
• 1.5.22
• 1.5.23
• 1.5.24
• 1.5.25
• 1.5.26
• 1.5.27
• 1.5.28
• 1.5.29
• 1.5.30
• 1.5.31
• 1.5.32

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