CVE-2024-5473 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Simple Photoswipe WordPress plugin through 0.1 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).

Published: 2024-06-26

Score: 4.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Simple Photoswipe

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 0.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:zitscher:simple_photoswipe:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00073.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c70cfc4-5759-469a-a6a3-510c405bd28a/

History

Mon, 19 May 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Zitscher Zitscher simple Photoswipe
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:zitscher:simple_photoswipe::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Zitscher Zitscher simple Photoswipe

Subscriptions

Zitscher Simple Photoswipe

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-26T06:00:05.192Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:11:12.795Z

Reserved: 2024-05-29T13:41:40.024Z

Link: CVE-2024-5473

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:11:12.795Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-26T06:15:17.197

Modified: 2025-05-19T21:02:45.173

Link: CVE-2024-5473

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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