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Cross-site Scripting occurrences in Site Reviews
The Site Reviews WordPress plugin before 5.17.3 does not sanitise and escape the site-reviews parameter of the glsr_action AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and any authenticated users), allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the Tool dashboard of the plugin (2022-01-03, CVE-2021-24973)
The Site Reviews WordPress plugin before 5.13.1 does not sanitise some of its Review Details when adding a review as an admin, which could allow them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when the unfiltered_html is disallowed (2021-09-06, CVE-2021-24603)
Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Site Reviews versions prior to 2.15.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. (2018-06-26, CVE-2018-0603)
Why Cross-site Scripting can be dangerous
Cross site scripting is an attack where a web page executes code that is injected by an adversary. It usually appears, when users input is presented. This attack can be used to impersonate a user, take over control of the session, or even steal API keys.
The attack can be executed e.g. when you application injects the request parameter directly into the HTML code of the page returned to the user:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=Transaction+Complete
what results in:
<span>Confirmation: Transaction Complete</span>
In that case the message can be modified to become a valid Javascript code, e.g.:
https://server.com/confirmation?message=<script>dangerous javascript code here</script>
and it will be executed locally by the user's browser with full access to the user's personal application/browser data:
<span>Confirmation: <script>dangerous javascript code here</script></span>