7 Jun 2019

Vulnerability Details: Authenticated Settings Change and Persistent XSS in WordPress to Sugar / SuiteCRM Lead

The plugin WordPress to Sugar / SuiteCRM Lead was closed on the Plugin Directory on February 14, 2019, with the given reason for that being “Guideline Violation”. The latest changes made to it where logged as “Sanitization and nounce update” and they fix a number of security issues in it. At least one of which was actually introduced since the plugin was closed, and then fixed. Two related vulnerabilities seem of the most concern. One of which could have allowed an attacker to cause lead submissions to be directed to them and the other would allow persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) to occur.

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This post provides insights on a vulnerability in the WordPress plugin WordPress to Sugar / SuiteCRM Lead not discovered by us, where the discoverer hadn't provided the details needed for us to confirm the vulnerability while we were adding it to the data set for our service, so the rest of its contents are limited to subscribers of our service.

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