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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: accordions: CVE-2020-13644: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 18, 2020
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in the Accordion plugin before 2.2.9 for WordPress. The unprotected AJAX wp_ajax_accordions_ajax_import_json action allowed any authenticated user with Subscriber or higher permissions the ability to import a new accordion and inject malicious JavaScript as part of the accordion.

Solution

accordions-plugin-cve-2020-13644
Title
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