SportsPress Plugin up to 2.7.21 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in SportsPress Plugin up to 2.7.21 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-3986. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in SportsPress Plugin up to 2.7.21 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

The SportsPress WordPress plugin before 2.7.22 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 disclosed by Krugov Aryom. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-3986 since 04/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. 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 2.7.22 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• SportsPress Plugin

Version

• 2.7.0
• 2.7.1
• 2.7.2
• 2.7.3
• 2.7.4
• 2.7.5
• 2.7.6
• 2.7.7
• 2.7.8
• 2.7.9
• 2.7.10
• 2.7.11
• 2.7.12
• 2.7.13
• 2.7.14
• 2.7.15
• 2.7.16
• 2.7.17
• 2.7.18
• 2.7.19
• 2.7.20
• 2.7.21

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