#wordpress

The WP Statistics WordPress plugin before 13.2.2 does not sanitise the REQUEST_URI parameter before outputting it back in the rendered page, leading to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in web browsers which do not encode characters

The Ask me WordPress theme before 6.8.2 does not properly sanitise and escape several of the fields in the Edit Profile page, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues

The Photo Gallery by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.6.4 does not properly validate and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks when unfiltered_html is disallowed

The Discy WordPress theme before 5.2 lacks CSRF checks in some AJAX actions, allowing an attacker to make a logged in admin change arbitrary 's settings including payment methods via a CSRF attack

The Discy WordPress theme before 5.2 does not check for CSRF tokens in the AJAX action discy_reset_options, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into resetting the site settings back to defaults.

The Ask me WordPress theme before 6.8.2 does not perform CSRF checks for any of its AJAX actions, allowing an attacker to trick logged in users to perform various actions on their behalf on the site.

The FiboSearch WordPress plugin before 1.17.0 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 when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

The Video Slider WordPress plugin before 1.4.8 does not sanitize or escape some of its video settings, which could allow high-privileged users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

The WP Born Babies WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its fields, which could allow users with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

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