Embed Peertube Playlist Plugin up to 1.9 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Embed Peertube Playlist Plugin up to 1.9 on WordPress. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-4602. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Embed Peertube Playlist Plugin up to 1.9 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Embed Peertube Playlist WordPress plugin before 1.10 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

The weakness was shared by Bob Matyas. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4602 since 05/07/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.10 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Embed Peertube Playlist Plugin

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9

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