Description

WordPress Plugin Top 10-Popular posts for WordPress is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting and security bypass vulnerabilities. Exploiting these issues may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site, to steal cookie-based authentication credentials, or to perform otherwise restricted actions and subsequently access chart data granted it can access the admin dashboard and retrieve the nonce used for access control. WordPress Plugin Top 10-Popular posts for WordPress version 3.2.4 is vulnerable; prior versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 3.2.5 or latest

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/top-10/top-10-popular-posts-plugin-324-authenticatedadmin-stored-cross-site-scripting

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/wordpress-plugins/top-10/top-10-popular-posts-plugin-for-wordpress-324-insufficient-authorization

https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/top-10/trunk/readme.txt

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Severity

High

Classification

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CWE-79 CWE-284 CVE-2023-26008