Vulnerability Report
Plugin Medium

External Links in New Window / New Tab <= 1.42 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The External Links in New Window / New Tab WordPress plugin before 1.43 does not properly escape URLs it concatenates to onclick event handlers, which makes Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks possible.

Published
May 09, 2022
Last Updated
Jan 22, 2024
Slug
open-external-links-in-a-new-window
Detailed Metadata
Software Type Plugin
Software Slug
open-external-links-in-a-new-window View on wordpress.org
CVE CVE-2022-1582
Patched Versions
1.43
Affected Versions
*-1.42
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