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CVE-2024-0255: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Recipe Maker plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-0255) in versions up to and including 9.1.0. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'wprm-recipe-text-share' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) by NIST with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assessed it at 6.4 (Medium) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to a version newer than 9.1.0 of the WP Recipe Maker plugin. The vulnerability has been patched in the source code as evidenced by the changes in the WordPress plugin repository (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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