Stored script execution via unescaped settings fields
Published Mar 27, 2023 · Updated Feb 26, 2025
Stored XSS in Mitchell Bennis Simple File List before 6.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to execute script in browsers. The settings handler stores text-field values such as File Description without sanitizing them and renders those values into form fields without escaping HTML attributes. Administrator access is required, and a victim must interact with a booby-trapped field; the resulting script runs in that victim's WordPress browser session.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Mitchell Bennis Simple File List before 6.0.10 allows remote authenticated users to execute script in browsers. The settings handler stores text-field values such as File Description without sanitizing them and renders those values into form fields without escaping HTML attributes. Administrator access is required, and a victim must interact with a booby-trapped field; the resulting script runs in that victim's WordPress browser session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-1025
- Published
- Mar 27, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2025
- Vendor
- Mitchell Bennis
- Product
- Simple File List
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1203
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 27, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <6.0.10
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- WPScan settings-page stored-XSS proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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