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CVE-2024-10016: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The File Upload Types by WPForms plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-10016) that affects all versions up to and including 1.4.0. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on October 24, 2024, affecting WordPress installations with the File Upload Types plugin installed (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping specifically related to SVG file uploads. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) with the 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, Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts through SVG file uploads. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the affected SVG file (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 1.5.0 of the File Upload Types plugin, released on October 23, 2024. The update implements proper sanitizing of SVG & HTML files and adds messages about allowing risky file types. Users are advised to update to this latest version immediately (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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