XSS FEB 2022 - Cross-Site Scripting FEB 2022
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Be informed about the latest Cross-Site Scripting FEB 2022, identified and reported publicly. As these XSS FEB 2022 vulnerabilities have a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security, consider our FREE security consulting.
An estimated jaw-dropping 6.498.000+ active WordPress installations were susceptible to these attack types, considering only the publicly disclosed and available numbers. It is a -20% decrease compared to last month. The estimated number can increase by 20-25% with premium versions as they are private purchases.
Furthermore, the initial estimation can triple if we consider (1) the already patched versions BUT NOT UPDATED by owners, as the vulnerability remains active within their domain; and (2) the closed "uncounted" versions remain active on domains already running the plugins, as nobody is maintaining security. As these owners start changing their hosting provider (due to constant unexplained issues), they actively migrate these vulnerabilities behind new / protected areas, possibly exposing other clean WP to different attack types.
The following cases made headlines PUBLICLY in the XSS FEB 2022 category:
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- WordPress 5.8.3 Security Release - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Post Slugs
- As with most XSS vulnerabilities, this vulnerability could be used to completely take over a site, or to add a malicious backdoor. However, it can only be exploited by users with the ability to publish posts. This vulnerability allows Authors and WooCommerce Shop Owner to add scripts to a site, but both roles are relatively trusted.
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin - Local File Inclusion
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WOOF – Products Filter for WooCommerce - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- For WooCommerce plugin Products Filter (WOOF) is product search plugin for WooCommerce that allows your site customers filter products by categories, attributes, products tags, products custom taxonomies and price. Active installations: 100,000+
- LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WordPress LMS Plugin – LearnPress is a comprehensive WordPress LMS Plugin for WordPress. This is one of the best WordPress LMS Plugins which can be used to easily create & sell courses online. You can create a course curriculum with lessons & quizzes included which is managed with an easy-to-use interface for users. Having this WordPress LMS Plugin, now you have a chance to quickly and easily create education, online school, online-course websites with no coding knowledge required. Active installations: 100,000+
- WP Extra File Types - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin let you add file types to the default list of file extensions supported by the Media Library upload procedure. Active installations: 50,000+
- Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Tutor is a complete, feature-packed and robust WordPress LMS plugin to create & sell courses online easily. All the features of this learning management system hits all the checkpoints for a full-fledged online course marketplace. You can create challenging and fun quizzes, interactive lessons, powerful reports and stats making Tutor potentially the best free WordPress LMS plugin. Manage, administer and monetize your education, online school, and online courses without having to write a single line of code. Active installations: 40,000+
- Custom Dashboard & Login Page – AGCA - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- With this plugin you can easily customize WordPress admin panel, login page, admin menu, admin bar etc. in tiny details. Active installations: 40,000+
- WP User Frontend – Membership, Profile, Registration & Post Submission Plugin for WordPress - SQL Injection to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WP User Frontend is one of the best frontend builder plugin for WordPress. It includes frontend dashboard, frontend editor & publishing, and frontend uploader for WordPress user profile, post submissions, and memberships. Active installations: 30,000+
- myCred – Points, Rewards, Gamification, Ranks, Badges & Loyalty Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- myCred is an intelligent and adaptive points management system that allows you to build and manage a broad range of digital rewards including points, ranks and, badges on your WordPress/WooCommerce powered website. Active installations: 20,000+
- Image Hover Effects Ultimate (Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison or Magnifier) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Image Hover Effects Ultimate (Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison or Magnifier) is an impressive, lightweight, responsive Image hover effects gallery. Use modern and elegant CSS hover effects and animations. Best Used for portfolio/ gallery/image showcase items in WordPress site using shortcodes and custom post. Consider the comfort of developers, we lunch an advanced pure CSS3 based hover effect plugin named Image Hover Effects Ultimate (Image Gallery, Effects, Lightbox, Comparison or Magnifier). It is fully responsive. Bring your images to live with some beautiful animation and transition with this awesome plugin. Active installations: 20,000+
- RegistrationMagic – Custom Registration Forms, User Registration and User Login Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Create custom WordPress Registration Forms, allow secure user registration, accept payments, track submissions, manage users, analyze stats, assign user roles, automate processes, send bulk emails and much more. If you need to build a custom WordPress Registration Forms process, look no further! Active installations: 10,000+
- Orders Tracking for WooCommerce - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Orders Tracking for WooCommerce is an essential plugin for tracking orders of WooCommerce. This plugin allows shop owners to add, edit, import, export the orders tracking numbers and tracking URLs of every item and order. Then the plugin can send the orders tracking emails, SMS, add the tracking information to PayPal transactions with orders tracking information and tracking URLs. This plugin also integrates the order tracking information with other tracking services. With the advantages of tracking orders, the shop owners can manage tracking orders easily and inform their customers about the orders journey. Likewise, customers will feel secure and comfortable in tracking their orders. Active installations: 10,000+
- Link Library - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Link Library - Library Settings Reset via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Link Library - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Links Deletion
- This plugin is used to be able to create a page on your web site that will contain a list of all of the link categories that you have defined inside of the Links section of the WordPress administration, along with all links defined in these categories. The user can select a sub-set of categories to be displayed or not displayed. Link Library also offers a mode where only one category is shown at a time, using AJAX or HTML Get queries to load other categories based on user input. It can display a search box and find results based on queries. It can also display a form to accept user submissions and allow the site administrator to moderate them before listing the new entries. Finally, it can generate an RSS feed for your link collection so that people can be aware of additions to your link library. Active installations: 10,000+
- Domain Check - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Domain Check allows you to see what domains and SSL certificates are coming up for expiration and to quickly locate the coupons, coupon codes, and deals from your favorite sites before renewing. Add any email addresses and have multiple people get alerts for upcoming domain renewals or SSL certificate expiration. You can also search for new domain names with the domain checker using hundreds of supported extensions and even check if your SSL certificates are working on a number of sites. All this plus bulk importing makes Domain Check the best domain management tool for your domain portfolio. Active installations: 200+
- WP Visited Countries Reloaded - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of September 23, 2021 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- Learning Courses - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of October 8, 2021 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- Perfect Survey - Unauthorised AJAX Call to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) / Survey Settings Update
- Perfect Survey - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- Perfect Survey - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Perfect Survey - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of October 5, 2021 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- SVG Support - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are becoming common place in modern web design, allowing you to embed images with small file sizes that are scalable to any visual size without loss of quality. Active installations: 800,000+
- Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Asset CleanUp: Page Speed Booster - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via AJAX Action
- Don’t just minify & combine CSS/JavaScript files ending up with large, bloated and slow loading pages: Strip the “fat” first and get a faster website! Active installations: 100,000+
- NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster - Arbitrary Post Deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- NextScripts: Social Networks Auto-Poster - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin automatically publishes posts from your blog to your Social Media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+(Google Plus), Blogger, Tumblr, Flickr, LinkedIn, ok.ru, LiveJournal, DreamWidth, Flipboard, Instagram, Telegram, Line, Diigo, Instapaper, Pinterest, Plurk, VK.com (VKontakte), YouTube, Scoop.It, WordPress, XING etc. Active installations: 90,000+
- Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- With Ivory Search, you can create an unlimited number of search forms and configure each search form individually to customize WordPress search and perform different types of searches on site content. Active installations: 80,000+
- Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery – Post Feed – Like Box - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- The easiest and user-friendly plugin for Custom Instagram Feed (Display photos, gallery, and videos), Custom Facebook Feed (posts, links, status, photos, videos, events), Facebook and Page Plugin (previously Facebook Like Box). Active installations: 70,000+
- Visual CSS Style Editor - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- The plugin allows you to customize any page and theme without coding. Click on an element and start visual editing. Adjust colors, fonts, sizes, positions and a lot more. Take full control over your website’s design with more than 60 style properties. Active installations: 50,000+
- Contact Form Entries – Contact Form 7, WPforms and more - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Contact Form 7 Entries Plugin automatically saves form submissions from Contact Form 7, WPforms, CRM Perks Forms and many other popular contact form plugins to wordpress database when anyone submits a form. Active installations: 40,000+
- Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WPLegalPages - Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Generate a professional Privacy Policy, terms of use, terms & conditions, eCommerce returns & refunds policy, affiliate disclaimers & more. Covers 25+ expert vetted legal pages for WordPress websites. Active installations: 20,000+
- SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System - Arbitrary Ticket Deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Ticket Deletion
- SupportCandy – Helpdesk & Support Ticket System - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin adds to WordPress the features of a complete helpdesk ticket system. Easy to configure and easy to use is our first priority. Active installations: 10,000++
- Awesome Support – WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Awesome Support is the most versatile and feature-rich support plugin for WordPress. It is the only helpdesk & support ticketing plugin that can match the feature set of an SAAS solution such as Zendesk or Helpscout. Active installations: 10,000+
- YuMoney button - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- YuMoney Button Plugin is a complete solution for accepting payments for individuals: Woocommerce payment gateway, Gutenberg block and widget. Active installations: 900+
- Contact Form 7 Skins - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 13, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Auto Amazon Links – Amazon Associates Affiliate Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Still manually searching products and pasting Amazon affiliate links in WordPress posts? What happens if the products get outdated? With this plugin, you do not have to worry about it nor trouble to do such repetitive tasks. Just pick categories which suit your site and it will automatically display the links of decent products just coming out from Amazon today. Active installations: 10,000+
- Complianz – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Complianz is a GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent plugin that supports GDPR, ePrivacy, DSGVO, TTDSG, LGPD, POPIA, APA, RGPD, CCPA and PIPEDA with a conditional Cookie Notice and customized Cookie Policy based on the results of the built-in Cookie Scan. Active installations: 300,000+
- Download Monitor - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Download Monitor provides an interface for uploading and managing downloadable files (including support for multiple versions), inserting download links into posts, logging downloads and selling downloads! Active installations: 100,000+
- Remove Footer Credit - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Remove or replace footer credits (or any text or HTML in page) before page is rendered. With this plugin there is no need to modify code such as footer.php which if done incorrectly can cause your site to break or new theme updates will stomp over your changes requiring you to remove footer credits on each update. Active installations: 100,000+
- Newsletter, SMTP, Email marketing and Subscribe forms by Sendinblue - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Sendinblue’s official plugin for WordPress is a powerful all-in-one email marketing plugin. Active installations: 90,000+
- MapPress Maps for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- MapPress is the easiest way to add beautiful interactive Google and Leaflet maps to WordPress. Active installations: 60,000+
- Themify Portfolio Post - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Themify Portfolio Posts is a simple plugin that allows you to showcase your projects info in a clean layout. Minimal and sleek, you can click on each image of your gallery portfolio and opt to show further details such as the project type, client name, and commission date – or edit each heading and name your own. Active installations: 60,000+
- Permalink Manager Lite - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Permalink Manager is a highly rated WordPress permalink editor that allows users to customize post, page, and custom post type URLs. Active installations: 60,000+
- Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Quiz And Survey Master – Best Quiz, Exam and Survey Plugin for WordPress - Low Privilege Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Quiz and Survey Master is the easiest WordPress Quiz Plugin which can be used to create engaging content to drive traffic and increase user engagement. Everything from viral quiz, trivia quiz, customer satisfaction surveys to employee surveys. This plugin is the ultimate marketing tool for your website. Active installations: 40,000+
- PPOM for WooCommerce - Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WooCommerce PPOM (Personalized Product Option Manager) Plugin adds input fields on product page to personalized your product. Drag & Drop input fields with many options. Prices can also be added with options. All data will be attached with order and email. Active installations: 20,000+
- NewStatPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- NewStatPress is a new version of StatPress that was the first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc. Active installations: 20,000+
- Ibtana – WordPress Website Builder - Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Ibtana Gutenberg Editor has ready made eye catching responsive templates build with custom blocks and options to extend Gutenberg’s default capabilities. You can easily import demo content for the block or templates with a single click. Once done, you can straight away start making the desired changes. It also kit with individual components and blocks to build internal pages. Now you don’t need to invest too much time in editing or recreating the template you love. Now its just drag and drop and easy edit of your favourite template with just few clicks. Active installations: 10,000+
- PowerPack Lite for Beaver Builder - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- PowerPack Beaver Builder Addon is built by IdeaBox Creations. It extends the functionality of Beaver Builder with its custom, creative and unique modules. Active installations: 10,000+
- WHMCS Bridge - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- The WHMCS Bridge plugin integrates your WHMCS support and billing software into WordPress providing a seamless and consistent user experience to your customers. Active installations: 10,000+
- Magee Shortcodes - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Magee Shortcodes is WordPress plugin that provides a pack of shortcodes. It is based on Bootstrap and coded with HTML5 and CSS3 language, fully responsive in desktops and mobile devices With enriched settings in options, you could easily create column, section, feature box, person, testimonial and much more.You can also customize post & page layouts using shortcode generator with one simple click, see how your inserted shortcode effects before it goes live with shortcode preview function. Active installations: 10,000+
- Adaptive Images for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Resizes and optimizes images delivered to mobile devices, in a transparent way, so that the total download time is dramatically reduced. It works as a filter between your WordPress website and the devices and seves smaller images to them. Active installations: 8,000+
- RSVP and Event Management Plugin - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- The RSVP plugin was created to help manage attendees for your events. It was initially created for my wedding and has since been used across thousands of events. Active installations: 5,000+
- Mortgage Calculators WP - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Mortgage Calculators WP is a very easy-to-use wordpress plugin built with the purpose of providing mortgage and other finance professionals with a mortgage calculator that not only delivers accurate home loan estimates, but also the ability for the users to instantly receive a free copy of those estimates via email while also providing the website owner with an email lead everytime a user requests a copy of their estimated values. Active installations: 1,000+
- Form Store to DB - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Form Store To DB is a FREE plugin for WordPress that you can use as extension for storing entries submitted via the contact form 7 without losing all the data including the attachments. Entries from the contact form 7 plugin will be stored safely even if the form failed to get submitted or any of your email get lost, deleted or removed by mistake. Active installations: 80+
- Permalink Manager Pro - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Permalink Manager is the ultimate solution for editing your posts & category URLs without modifying any core files. It works seamlessly with WooCommerce, ACF, Toolset and all other custom post types and taxonomies. Active installations: N/A
- Random Banner - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 13, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- SpiderCalendar - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 13, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is permanent.
- Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Download Definition Updates to protect against new threats. Run a Complete Scan to automatically remove known security threats, backdoor scripts, and database injections. Firewall block SoakSoak and other malware from exploiting Revolution Slider and other plugins with known vulnerabilites. Upgrade vulnerable versions of timthumb scripts. Active installations: 200,000+
- Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Ad management plugin with many advanced advertising features to insert ad codes at optimal positions. Active installations: 200,000+
- GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- GiveWP is the highest rated, most downloaded, and best supported donation plugin for WordPress. Whether you need a simple donate button or a powerful donation platform optimized for online giving, GiveWP is right for you. Active installations: 100,000+
- Download Manager - Authenticated SQL Injection to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WordPress Download Manager is a Files / Documents Management Plugin to manage, track and control file downloads from your WordPress Site. Use Passwords, User Roles to control access to your files, control downloads by speed or by putting a limit on download count per user, block bots or unwanted users or spammers using Captcha Lock or IP Block feature, you may also ask users to agree with your terms and conditions before they download. Active installations: 100,000+
- Advanced Database Cleaner - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Clean up database by deleting orphaned items such as ‘old revisions’, ‘spam comments’, optimize database and more… Active installations: 80,000+
- Shield Security – Scanners, Security Hardening, Brute Force Protection & Firewall - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- No-Nonsense, No-Hype. Just Good Security Protection. Shield is the only NO-nonsense security solution that defends and protects your WordPress sites against hackers and malicious bots, of all types. With our exclusive, no-need-for-captcha security technology you can limit login attempts, block brute force attacks and prevent 100% bot comment SPAM. Active installations: 60,000+
- WOOCS – Currency Switcher for WooCommerce. Professional and Free multi currency plugin – Pay in selected currency - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WOOCS – WooCommerce Currency Switcher is free WooCommerce multi currency switcher plugin for woocommerce, that allows your site visitors switch products prices currencies according to set currencies rates in the real time and pay in the selected currency (optionally). WOOCS is multi currency plugin that allows to add any currency to WooCommerce store. Ideal solution to make the serious WooCommerce store site in multiple currencies! Active installations: 60,000+
- Image Photo Gallery Final Tiles Grid - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Image Gallery + Photo Gallery + Portfolio Gallery + Tiled Gallery in 1 plugin. Includes lightbox and hover effects. It supports Pinterest (masonry) photo gallery and tiled grid gallery. Active installations: 30,000+
- FeedWordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- FeedWordPress is an Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content from feeds that you choose into your WordPress weblog, and then the content it syndicates appears as a series of special posts in your WordPress posts database. Active installations: 20,000+
- Duplicate Page or Post - Arbitrary Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WordPress Duplicate Page or Post plugin is an nice and useful tool if you need to copy your pages or posts. Active installations: 10,000+
- Ad Inserter Pro - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Ad Inserter is a simple yet powerful WordPress ad management plugin with many advanced advertising features to insert ads at optimal positions. It supports all kinds of ads including Google AdSense ads, contextual Amazon Native Shopping Ads, Media.net ads, Ezoic ads and banners. Active installations: N/A
- Five Star Business Profile and Schema - page creation and settings update leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Add schema structured data to any page and/or post type on your site. Also easily create a contact card to add all your business details with the correct structured data. Enhance your site with SEO friendly Schema.org markup. Active installations: 10,000+
- The Buffer Button - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 3, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Translation Exchange – Translate Your WordPress Site In Minutes! - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 3, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- ProfileGrid – User Profiles, Memberships, Groups and Communities - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 17, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- User Registration, Login & Landing Pages – LeadMagic - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 17, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WebHotelier for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This WordPress Plugin is a form generator/manager exlusively designed to aid WebHotelier Clients on generating and managing forms which are linked to their WebHotelier accounts so that their website visitors can directly search for room availability. Active installations: 200+
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BRIEF: Cross-Site Scripting FEB 2022 is a type of security vulnerability typically found in web applications. XSS attacks enable attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy.
What is Cross-Site Scripting FEB 2022?
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it.
An attacker can use XSS to send a malicious script to an unsuspecting user. The end user’s browser has no way to know that the script should not be trusted, and will execute the script. Because it thinks the script came from a trusted source, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by the browser and used with that site. These scripts can even rewrite the content of the HTML page.
What is the impact of a XSS FEB 2022 attack?
The actual impact of an XSS attack generally depends on the nature of the application, its functionality and data, and the status of the compromised user. For example:
- In a simple public application, where all users are anonymous and all information is public, the impact will often be minimal. Nothing else to steal.
- In an application holding sensitive or private/personal data, such as banking transactions, emails, or healthcare records, the impact will usually be serious.
- If the compromised user has elevated privileges within the application, then the impact will generally be critical, allowing the attacker to take full control of the vulnerable application and compromise all users, owners and their data.
What kind of XSS attacks are exploited?
- Reflected XSS, where the malicious script comes from the current HTTP request.
- Stored XSS, where the malicious script comes from the website's database.
- DOM-based XSS, where the vulnerability exists in client-side code rather than server-side code.
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