CVE-2024-8500 (GCVE-0-2024-8500)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-23 11:04 – Updated: 2024-10-23 13:31
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Summary
The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the several parameters in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gn_themes WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate Affected: * , ≤ 7.2.2 (semver)
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Credits
Craig Smith
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