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CVE-2024-11905: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Animated Counters plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-11905) affecting all versions up to and including 2.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on December 16, 2024, and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) (Wordfence, NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'animatedcounter' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. The issue is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 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 (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The plugin has been closed as of December 13, 2024, due to this security issue. Users should immediately remove the Animated Counters plugin from their WordPress installations (WordPress).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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