CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-24316
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
WP Plugin Rednumber Admin Menu v1.1 and lower does not sanitize the value of the "role" GET parameter before echoing it back out to the user. This results in a reflected XSS vulnerability that attackers can exploit with a specially crafted URL.
Affected configurations
• admin menu project admin menu (<= 1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu/ Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://zeroaptitude.com/zerodetail/wordpress-plugin-bug-hunting-part-1/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, URL Repurposed
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu/ Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://zeroaptitude.com/zerodetail/wordpress-plugin-bug-hunting-part-1/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, URL Repurposed