cve/2024/CVE-2024-8702.md

### [CVE-2024-8702](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-8702)
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### Description

The Backup Database WordPress plugin through 4.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

### POC

#### Reference
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/2199ef66-25bd-4eb4-a675-d8b30f047847/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.