Description
The Auto Affiliate Links plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 6.8.8 This is due to insufficient input sanitization on the 'url' POST parameter in the aal_url_stats_save_action() function and a complete absence of output escaping in aal_display_clicks(), where the stored value is echoed directly into an anchor element's href attribute and inner text without esc_url(), esc_attr(), or esc_html(). This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into the admin statistics page that execute in an administrator's browser when the page is visited, leveraging a publicly exposed nonce and an unauthenticated AJAX endpoint registered via the wp_ajax_nopriv_ hook.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
thedark Auto Affiliate Links
Default version status: unaffected
0 to ≤ 6.8.8affected
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6c8ed84e-3504-42e3-821d-794198d7adda?source=cve ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L225 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L225 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L225 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L304 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L304 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php#L278 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8/aal_stats.php#L278 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L304 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.6/aal_stats.php#L278 ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3519003/wp-auto-affiliate-links/trunk/aal_stats.php ↗
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Fwp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8&new_path=%2Fwp-auto-affiliate-links/tags/6.8.8.1 ↗