CVE-2024-12258
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Service Payment Form With Authorize.net WordPress plugin contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-12258) affecting versions up to and including 2.6.3. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on December 11, 2024. The issue exists in the 'page' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N), requires low attack complexity (AC:L), needs no privileges (PR:N), requires user interaction (UI:R), has changed scope (S:C), and can result in low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L) with no availability impact (A:N) (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. This can lead to potential theft of sensitive information or manipulation of user sessions (NVD).

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