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Guest Author <= 2.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

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2023-12-03

The Guest Author plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via author name in versions up to, and including, 2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS

Score:5.9

Severity:Medium

Version: 2.3

There is a patch available in v2.4 and we strongly recommend you update to this version as soon as possible.