CVE-2024-2402 - OpenCVE

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 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 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 none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/98e050cf-5686-4216-bad1-575decf3eaa7/

History

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
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': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-24T05:00:02.534Z

Updated: 2024-10-29T16:12:12.668Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T12:32:09.387Z

Link: CVE-2024-2402

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.525Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-04-24T05:15:47.070

Modified: 2024-10-29T17:35:05.720

Link: CVE-2024-2402

Redhat

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