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Highlight Vulnerabilities

2 known security issues reported for the Highlight WordPress plugin. Most recent disclosed Jan 3, 2025.

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Highlight <= 2.0.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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The Highlight plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 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...

CVSS:
4.4
Affected:
up to 2.0.2
Fixed in:
2.0.6
Disclosed:
Jan 3, 2025

CVE-2024-56297 on NVD →

Highlight < 0.9.3 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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The Highlight WordPress plugin before 0.9.3 does not sanitise its CustomCSS setting, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

CVSS:
5.5
Affected:
up to 0.9.3
Fixed in:
0.9.3
Disclosed:
Aug 6, 2021

CVE-2021-24591 on NVD →

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