CVE-2024-8857 (GCVE-0-2024-8857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-07 06:00 – Updated: 2025-01-07 15:17
VLAI?
Title
WordPress Auction <= 3.7 - Editor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The WordPress Auction Plugin WordPress plugin through 3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/08ca6daa-09f4-46… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WordPress Auction Plugin Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.7 (semver)
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Credits
Bob Matyas WPScan
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