underConstruction <= 1.20 is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

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Published
2022-05-25

The underConstruction WordPress plugin before 1.21 does not sanitise or escape the "Display a custom page using your own HTML" setting before outputting it, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiletred_html capability is disallowed.

CVE

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1896

CVSS

Score:4.8

Severity:Medium

Version: 1.20

There is a patch available in v1.21 and we strongly recommend you update to this version as soon as possible.