Report of Security Vulnerability in Gutenslider Plugin
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Dear Support Team,
I have identified a security vulnerability within the WP All Import plugin.
I am providing the details below.“CWE 95 Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code (‘Eval Injection’)”
Flaw Category: Cross-Site Scripting
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Description: This call contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw. The application populates the HTTP response with untrusted input, allowing an attacker to embed malicious content, such as Javascript code, which will be
executed in the context of the victim’s browser. XSS vulnerabilities are
commonly exploited to steal or manipulate cookies, modify presentation
of content, and compromise confidential information, with new attack
vectors being discovered on a regular basis.
Remediation: Use contextual escaping on all untrusted data before using it to construct any portion of an HTTP response. The escaping method
should be chosen based on the specific use case of the untrusted data,
otherwise it may not protect fully against the attack. For example, if the
data is being written to the body of an HTML page, use HTML entity
escaping; if the data is being written to an attribute, use attribute
escaping; etc. When a web framework provides built-in support for
automatic XSS escaping, do not disable it. Both the OWASP Java
Encoder library for Java and the Microsoft AntiXSS library provide
contextual escaping methods. For more details on contextual escaping,
see https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_
Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html. In addition, as a best practice, always
validate untrusted input to ensure that it conforms to the expected
format, using centralized data validation routines when possibleFollowing are the errors associated with the issue.
UNKNOWN
Please provide further details or clarifications regarding the errors.
Thank you.
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