SureDash <= 1.12.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Image 'alt' Attribute in Community Post Content
What fixes it
No source in this snapshot names a fixed version.
Description
The SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored DOM-Based Cross-Site Scripting via Image 'alt' Attribute in Community Post Content in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The entity-encoded payload bypasses server-side wp_kses filtering because kses permits the img/alt tag combination and does not normalize entities inside attribute values; the decode occurs client-side when GLightbox reads the .alt DOM property and assigns the result to innerHTML.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 1
- SureDash – Community, Courses & Member Dashboardaffected: all versions through 1.12.1CVE List
References 7
- wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a8b5b389-85f4-4cc5-9796-55b611af7916?source=cveReferencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/assets/js/minified/lightbox.min.jsReferencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routers/misc.php#L59Referencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/core/routes.php#L101Referencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/services/router.php#L127Referencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/suredash/tags/1.12.0/inc/utils/post-meta.php#L377Referencevia CVE List
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3724179%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.2&old=3694773%40suredash%2Ftags%2F1.12.0Referencevia CVE List