WordPress Akal Theme Cross Site Scripting

Description

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user within the output it generates without validating or encoding it. ^OWASP

Recommendation

Remove the Akal theme.

References

• OWASP: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• OWASP: XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet
• OWASP: ESAPI project
• CVE-2016-10957
• WordPress
• OWASP 2017-A9
• OWASP 2021-A6
• CWE-79
• OWASP 2017-A7
• OWASP 2021-A3
• CWE-20