CVE-2024-9836 (GCVE-0-2024-9836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-12 06:00 – Updated: 2024-11-12 14:28
VLAI?
Summary
The RSS Feed Widget WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f87af54e-3e58-4c… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown RSS Feed Widget Affected: 0 , < 3.0.0 (semver)
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Credits
Bob Matyas WPScan
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