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WP Subtitle <= 3.4 is vulnerable to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

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2022-04-24

The WP Subtitle WordPress plugin before 3.4.1 adds a subtitle field and provides a shortcode to display it via [wp_subtitle]. The subtitle is stored as a custom post meta with the key: "wps_subtitle", which is sanitized upon post save/update, however is not sanitized when updating it directly from the post meta update button (via AJAX) - and this makes the XSS exploitable by authenticated users with a role as low as contributor.

CVSS

Score:5.4

Severity:Medium

Version: 3.4

There is a patch available in v3.4.1 and we strongly recommend you update to this version as soon as possible.