CVE-2024-0561 - OpenCVE

The Ultimate Posts Widget WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, 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)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Themecheck	Ultimate Posts Widget

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/99b6aa8b-deb9-48f8-8896-f3c8118a4f70/

History

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Themecheck Themecheck ultimate Posts Widget
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:themecheck:ultimate_posts_widget:-:::::wordpress::
Vendors & Products		Themecheck Themecheck ultimate Posts Widget
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-03-11T17:56:07.112Z

Updated: 2024-10-31T14:12:59.580Z

Reserved: 2024-01-15T13:54:13.475Z

Link: CVE-2024-0561

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:11:35.631Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-03-11T18:15:17.797

Modified: 2024-10-31T15:35:19.430

Link: CVE-2024-0561

Redhat

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