CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe Football Pool plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping of the `shouttext` POST parameter in the Shoutbox widget. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary scripts in the browsers of authenticated users, such as Subscribers, who are manipulated into submitting a malicious POST request. WordPress site administrators using this plugin should prioritize patching to mitigate potential exploitation risks.
Original NVD Description
The Football Pool plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the `shouttext` POST parameter of the Shoutbox widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.13.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. When a shoutbox form submission fails the nonce check (or `shouttext` is empty, or the user is unable to save), the raw POST value is echoed back into a `<textarea>` element using `printf('%s', ...)` with no HTML escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary web scripts in the browser of an authenticated victim (Subscriber-level or higher) who is tricked into submitting a crafted POST request to a page that contains the Shoutbox widget.