github - ghsa-cq42-27g7-j8cw

ghsa-cq42-27g7-j8cw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-11-25 09:31

Modified

2025-11-25 09:31

Severity ?

4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

The Just Highlight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Highlight Color' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the plugin's settings page.

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CVE-2025-13311 (GCVE-0-2025-13311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-11-25 07:28

Modified

2025-11-25 14:59

Severity ?

4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Summary

The Just Highlight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Highlight Color' setting in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the plugin's settings page.

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d21187bc-5bd0-49b9-9ef2-6654263cd93c?source=cve
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/just-highlight/trunk/just-highlight.php#L169
	https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/just-highlight/tags/1.0.3/just-highlight.php#L169

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	sigalitam	Just Highlight	Version: * ≤ 1.0.3

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