The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and ou…
High CVSS 7.2
Summary
The W3 Total Cache plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment Author Name in all versions up to, and including, 2.10.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability is only exploitable when the Lazy Load Images feature of W3 Total Cache is enabled, as the unsafe re-emission o…
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L162
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L403
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php#L85
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/w3-total-cache/tags/2.10.2/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Plugin.php#L116
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3635675/w3-total-cache/trunk/UserExperience_LazyLoad_Mutator.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fw3-total-cache/tags/2.10.3&new_path=%2Fw3-total-cache/tags/2.10.4
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?reponame=&new=3635675%40w3-total-cache%2Ftags%2F2.10.4&old=3625062%40w3-total-cache%2Ftags%2F2.10.3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/16ac73ae-6a0a-4c9b-8830-e0745061e587?source=cve
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD