Lottie Player Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability has been identified in the Lottie Player plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions through 1.1.8. This vulnerability arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping, allowing authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. The injected scripts execute when a user accesses the uploaded file.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for stored cross-site scripting, where injected scripts are executed in the context of the user viewing the file.

Remediation

Users can update to version 1.2.0 or a newer patched version to address this vulnerability.