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Wordfence Claims It Is a Vulnerability For Users With the unfiltered_html Capability to Use Unfiltered HTML

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As we warned our customers on Friday, the latest version of the WordPress plugin Easy Digital Downloads incompletely fixed a vulnerability. That is something we ran across while preparing to see if another security fix made in it fixed a vulnerability. That same day, Wordfence claimed that the version had fixed what they labeled as an “Authenticated(Shop Manager+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via variable pricing options” vulnerability and described this way:

The Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files (eCommerce Store & Payments Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the variable pricing option title in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with shop manger-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. [Read more]