CVE-2024-6850 (GCVE-0-2024-6850)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-13 06:00 – Updated: 2024-09-13 15:24
VLAI
Title
Carousel Slider < 2.2.14 - Editor+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-13 15:18 UTC
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 1605 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/c06995cb-1685-47… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Carousel Slider Affected: 0 , < 2.2.4 (semver)
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majeedraza carousel_slider Affected: 0 , < 2.2.4 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:majeedraza:carousel_slider:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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