CVE-2024-1401 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Profile Box Shortcode And Widget WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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 High

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.

The EPSS score is 0.00108.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Awplife	Profile Box Shortcode And Widget

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:awplife:profile_box_shortcode_and_widget:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/91064ba5-cf65-46e6-88df-0e4d96a3ef9f/

History

Mon, 05 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:awplife:profile_box_shortcode_and_widget::::::wordpress::*

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Awplife Awplife profile Box Shortcode And Widget
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:awplife:profile_box_shortcode_and_widget::::::::
Vendors & Products		Awplife Awplife profile Box Shortcode And Widget
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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: 2024-03-19T14:28:21.065Z

Updated: 2025-03-27T20:29:20.340Z

Reserved: 2024-02-09T14:46:58.142Z

Link: CVE-2024-1401

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T18:40:20.383Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-03-19T15:15:07.183

Modified: 2025-05-05T18:51:21.257

Link: CVE-2024-1401

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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