Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-11456

CVE-2024-11456:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Run Contests, Raffles, and Giveaways with ContestsWP plugin for WordPress contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-11456) affecting all versions up to and including 2.0.3. The vulnerability was disclosed on November 21, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper escaping of the URL in the addqueryarg function. This implementation flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users perform specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. The impact is primarily focused on compromising user interactions with the affected WordPress plugin (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update to a version newer than 2.0.3 when available. In the meantime, website administrators should implement proper input validation and URL encoding mechanisms (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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