XSS MAR 2022 - Cross-Site Scripting MAR 2022
Tailored WordPress Security Report
Be informed about the latest Cross-Site Scripting MAR 2022, identified and reported publicly. As these XSS MAR 2022 vulnerabilities have a severe negative impact on any WordPress Security, consider our security audit.
An estimated jaw-dropping 3.648.000+ active WordPress installations were susceptible to these attack types, considering only the publicly disclosed and available numbers. It is a minuscule -1.5% 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 MAR 2022 category:
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- Essential Addons for Elementor - Unauthenticated LFI
- Essential Addons for Elementor - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Enhance your Elementor page building experience with 80+ creative elements and extensions. Add powers to your page builder using our easy-to-use elements those were designed to make your next WordPress page and posts design easier and prettier than ever before. Active installations: 1+ million
- StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- The Official StatCounter WordPress Plugin brings you all the powerful StatCounter features to your wordpress blog. Active installations: 100,000+
- Migration, Backup, Staging – WPvivid Backup and Migration Plugin - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WPvivid Backup Plugin offers backup, migration, and staging as basic features, and is integrating more and more elegant features, such as unused images cleaner etc. Active installations: 100,000+
- WP RSS Aggregator – News Feeds, Autoblogging, Youtube Video Feeds and More - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WP RSS Aggregator is the original, most popular and most robust plugin for importing, merging, and displaying RSS feeds and Atom feeds anywhere on your site. Set up your RSS feed sources and let the plugin do the leg-work. Active installations: 60,000 +
- Post Snippets - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin lets you build a library with snippets of HTML, PHP code or reoccurring text that you often use in your posts and pages. You can use predefined variables to replace parts of the snippet on insert. All snippets are available in the post editor via a button in the Visual mode. Active installations: 30,000 +
- WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) - Arbitrary IP Address Exclusion to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- A comprehensive plugin for your WordPress visitor statistics, Track statistics for your WordPress site without depending on external services. Active installations: 20,000+
- WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Web accessibility refers to the inclusive practice of removing barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to websites, by people with disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users have equal access to information and functionality. Active installations: 20,000 +
- WHMCS Bridge - Reflected 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 +
- Easy Drag And drop All Import : WP Ultimate CSV Importer - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Import your unlimited data into WordPress as CSV, XML, txt or zip file using WP Ultimate CSV importer. Import your content on WordPress using this best CSV importer quick and simple with a few steps. Built-in drag and drop facility is also available to make the import process a hassle-free task in less time. No other special requirements are needed to import any CSV or XML files. Active installations: 10,000 +
- Testimonial WordPress Plugin – AP Custom Testimonial - SQL Injection (SQLi)
- Testimonial WordPress Plugin – AP Custom Testimonial - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- DESCRIPTION Active installations: 3,000+
- Profile Builder – User Profile & User Registration Forms - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Easy to use user profile plugin for creating front-end login, user registration and edit profile forms by using shortcodes. Active installations: 60,000 +
- WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder for WordPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder for WordPress - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Create professional, mobile friendly, accessible contact forms. WS Form LITE comes complete with features other form builder plugins charge a premium for. Active installations: 1,000+
- Super Forms - WordPress Drag & Drop Form Builder - Arbitrary File Upload leading to Remote Code Execution (RCE)
- Super Forms - WordPress Drag & Drop Form Builder - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Read the Documentation for detailed information about features available in Super Forms. Active installations: N/A
- Embed Swagger - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 24, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Crazy Bone - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 26, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WP Responsive Menu - Settings Update to Stored Cross-Site (XSS)
- WP Responsive Menu is a simple plugin that lets you add a highly customizable responsive menu to any WordPress site in no time at all and customization can all be done directly from the setting page, with no coding needed at all. Active installations: 60,000 +
- Cost Calculator - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Cost Calculator - Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI)
- This plugin has been closed as of November 3, 2021 and is not available for download. Reason: Security Issue.
- Advanced iFrame - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Include content the way YOU like in an iframe that can hide and modify elements, does auto height, forward parameters and does many, many more… Active installations: 70,000 +
- CP Blocks - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- CP Blocks is an easy way to insert cool buttons, styles, scripts, payment / donation buttons and features into your WordPress website without requiring programming knowledge. With CP Blocks you can access many resources like design elements, form’s fields, new features, and more. Active installations: 1,000+
- WP Time Slots Booking Form - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WP Time Slots Booking Form creates booking forms for booking time slots into the calendar dates. Basically you can create a form with a calendar where the end-user can pick times into the calendar dates and book them. Notifications emails are sent to let the admin know that a booking was completed and confirmation email can be sent also to the user making the booking. Active installations: 1,000+
- WordPress Gallery MaxGalleria - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 1, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Custom Content Shortcode - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Custom Content Shortcode - Authenticated Arbitrary File Access / Local File Inclusion (LFI)
- From a single field to entire pages, Custom Content Shortcode is a set of commands to display content where you need. Active installations: 10,000 +
- ThriveDesk – Live Chat, Helpdesk & Community for WordPress - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- ThriveDesk is arguably the best live chat software for WordPress. It’s simple, straightforward, and easy to use. Lightest, fastest live chat assistant that will work to attract customers without slowing down your website. Active installations: 70+
- Yasr – Yet Another Stars Rating - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Improving the user experience with your website is a top priority for everyone who cares about their online activity,
as it promotes familiarity and loyalty with your brand, and enhances visibility of your activity. Active installations: 20,000 +
- Improving the user experience with your website is a top priority for everyone who cares about their online activity,
- Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads - RCE / Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Ad management plugin with many advanced advertising features to insert ad codes at optimal positions. Active installations: 200,000+
- Spiffy Calendar - Edit/Delete event via IDOR
- Spiffy Calendar - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Spiffy Calendar -
Event deletion via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - Spiffy Calendar - Multiple Authenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
- Spiffy Calendar - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Manage and display your events in a responsive calendar with multiple views, widgets and shortcodes. Color-coded categories and recurrence support. The premium Bonus Add-Ons supplements the plugin with additional themes, customizer support, ICS export, front end submit, CSV import/export and custom fields. Active installations: 4,000+
- WP Statistics - Unauthenticated SQL Injection (SQLi)
- WP Statistics - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Do you need a simple tool to know your website statistics? Do you need to represent these statistics? Are you caring about your users’ privacy while analyzing who are interested in your business or website? With WP Statistics you can know your website statistics without any need to send your users’ data anywhere. Active installations: 600,000+
- 3D FlipBook – PDF Flipbook Viewer, Flipbook Image Gallery - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- 3D FlipBook is PDF Viewer that allows to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as a flipbook. It can be used for demonstration magazines, books, cards, brochures, booklets and much more in natural way. 3D FlipBook helps to attract user attention and make more impression on him. Active installations: 70,000+
- Unreal FlipBook – WPBakery Addon - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Unreal FlipBook is PDF Viewer or WordPress plugin that allows to browse images, PDFs or HTMLs as a flipping book. It can be used for demonstration magazines, books, cards, brochures, booklets and much more in natural way. Active installations: 1,000+
- 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.
- Flexi – Guest Submit - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- No more looking for fast, easy gallery plugin with simple and very beautiful, highly customizable design. With our plugin you can let your visitors to post images, YouTube , vimeo , PDF, MP3, MP4 & type of files from frontend without login and convert those content into gallery. Active installations: 200+
- Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps (support Sitemap Index, Multi-site and Google News) - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 14, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WP Voting Contest - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 20, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- ARI Stream Quiz – WordPress Quizzes Builder - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- It helps to collect unlimited leads in a fun way without annoying popups and alerts. Just create interesting quizzes and share them for visitors of your site. Good quizzes add virality and help to increase page views on your WordPress site. It adds more places to show ads and monetize your content. Active installations: 3,000+
- Simple Quotation - Quote Creation/Edition via CSRF
- Simple Quotation - CSRF leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of January 7, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- ARI Fancy Lightbox – WordPress Popup - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
- Need a lightbox plugin to show various content on any device (from mobile to desktop)? ARI Fancy Lightbox is the right choice. Active installations: 10,000+
- Kunze Law - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Use the Kunze Law Plug-In to import content (HTML snippets) from a central remote Address into a post or page using a shortcode. Active installations: 800+
- Sync QCloud COS - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This is a plugin that uses Tencent Cloud Cloud Object Storage for attachments remote saving. Active installations: 300+
- Header Footer Code Manager - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Header Footer Code Manager by 99 Robots is a easy interface to add snippets to the header or footer or above or below the content of your page. Active installations: 300,000+
- Team Circle Image Slider With Lightbox - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Team Circle Image Slider With Lightbox is a beautiful responsive circle thumbnail image slider with responsive lightbox. Active installations: 800+
- Master Addons for Elementor - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Master Addons is a collection of Stunning and cutting edged designed Elementor Addons Pack. Have you been looking for the perfect addons for Elementor that can help you make a creative looking website? Well, you don’t have to look too far. Active installations: 30,000+
- Simple Theme Options - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 15, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Seo 301 Meta - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 15, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- Countdown, Coming Soon, Maintenance – Countdown & Clock - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Countdown builder – Customizable Countdown Timer. A very simple plugin to add countdown timer to your website. Countdown timer allow you to create nice and functional Countdown timer just in a few minutes. Active installations: 10,000+
- Petfinder Listings - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 15, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- GDMylist - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin has been closed as of February 15, 2022 and is not available for download. This closure is temporary, pending a full review.
- WP Home Page Menu - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WP Home Page Menu plugin adds home page menu in your site navigation bar which points to the home page of your site. Active installations: 900+
- Patreon WordPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- With Patreon WordPress, you can bring Patreon features to your WordPress website and integrate them to make them work together. You can even easily import your existing Patreon posts and keep your Patreon posts synced to your WP site automatically! Your patron-only content at your WordPress site will encourage your visitors to become your patrons to unlock your content. Active installations: 5,000+
- Contact Form Submissions - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Easy install, no configuration necessary. Once activated all contact form 7 submissions will be saved so you can view them in wp-admin. Active installations: 50,000+
- Cookie Information | Free GDPR Consent Solution - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- This plugin helps your website stay compliant with GDPR using a free cookie pop-up, consent log, and more. Active installations: 100,000+
- BulletProof Security - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WordPress Security Protection: Malware scanner, Firewall, Login Security, DB Backup, Anti-Spam. Effective, Reliable & Easy to use WordPress Security Plugin. Active installations: 50,000+
- EasyJobs – Easiest Talent Recruitment Suite – Job Manager & Career Page in Elementor - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- EasyJobs is a SAAS recruitment solution which comes with full functionality from WordPress dashboard and it also has Elementor compatibility to manage the hiring process without using any codes. Active installations: 5,000+
- LoginPress | Custom Login Page Customizer - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- LoginPress Plugin by LoginPress holds a lot of customization fields to change the layout of the login page of WordPress. You can modify the look and feel of login page completely even the login error messages, forgot error messages, registration error messages, forget password hint message and many more. Active installations: 200,000+
- WP Cerber Security, Anti-spam & Malware Scan - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Defends WordPress against hacker attacks, spam, trojans, and malware. Mitigates brute-force attacks by limiting the number of login attempts through the login form, XML-RPC / REST API requests, or using auth cookies. Active installations: 200,000+
- Ditty (formerly Ditty News Ticker) - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Formerly Ditty News Ticker. Ditty is a multi-functional data display plugin. Easily render custom data feeds to your site through a customizable news ticker, list, or slider. Active installations: 50,000+
- WordPress File Upload - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Malicious SVG
- WordPress File Upload - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Shortcode
- With this plugin you or other users can upload files to your site from any page, post or sidebar easily and securely. Active installations: 30,000+
- YOP Poll - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- YOP Poll plugin allows you to easily integrate a survey in your blog post/page and to manage the polls from within your WordPress dashboard but if offers so much more than other similar products. Simply put, it doesn’t lose sight of your needs and ensures that no detail is left unaccounted for. Active installations: 20,000+
- WP Event Manager – Easily Build your Calendar of Events! - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Suffering with a complicated and feature-bloated event management plugin is not a situation you need to be in. You’ll want an intuitive, snappy way to create events fast. What’s more, you’ll need a quick way to set events up regardless of whether they are in-person, virtual, or everything in between. Active installations: 10,000+
- E2Pdf – Export To Pdf Tool for WordPress - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Today, the E2Pdf plugin and WordPress extension provide the entire WordPress community with a cost free method of creating dynamic PDF documents – without programming or coding – with one simple shortcode. More information can be found at E2Pdf.com Active installations: 8,000+
- WordPress File Upload Professional - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Malicious SVG
- WordPress File Upload Professional - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via Shortcode
- With this plugin you, or other users, can upload files to your WordPress website from any page easily and securely, while it has many features and capabilities. Active installations: N/A+
- Advanced Product Labels for WooCommerce - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Creating labels has come really easy and fast with the Advanced Product Labels plugin. Promote your free products, show “Free Shipping” or other special attributes of products. By using conditions you can add each label to specific products in your shop. Active installations: 20,000+
- WordPress Multisite Content Copier/Updater - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- WordPress Multisite Content Copier/Updater plugin is the best solution for copy/update posts and pages from one site (blog) to the other sites (blogs) in your WordPress Multisite Network. Active installations: 800+
- ووکامرس فارسی - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- بسته فارسی ساز فروشگاه ساز ووکامرس شما را قادر می سازد تا ووکامرس را به صورت کامل فارسی شده همراه با امکانات کاربردی نظیر شهر های ایران، واحد های پولی ایران، درگاه های پرداخت بانکی و ابزارهای کاربردی دیگر داشته باشید. Active installations: 80,000 +
- Pricing Table Builder – AP Pricing Tables Lite -
Reflected CrossSite Scripting (XSS)- AP Pricing Tables Lite is a feature-rich WordPress pricing table plugin with an intuitive interface. It offers 5 predefined templates with various options. With this easy-to-use plugin, even non-coder can design a stunning pricing table in no time. This tool allows you to create unlimited pricing table with upto 4 columns addition. Active installations: 400+
- Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – AP Mega Menu -
Reflected CrossSite Scripting (XSS)- AP Mega Menu is a FREE WordPress plugin, for Mega Menu. With AP Mega Menu, you can easily add several widgets column wise, configure them and create great horizontal and vertical mega menu. Active installations: 6,000+
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BRIEF: Cross-Site Scripting MAR 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 MAR 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 MAR 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.
SOLVE TODAY any reported XSS MAR 2022 vulnerability! Do you suspect any Cross-Site Scripting MAR 2022 in your WordPress / WooCommerce?
