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CVE-2024-12459:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Ganohrs Toggle Shortcode plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-12459) affecting all versions up to and including 0.2.4. The vulnerability was disclosed on December 14, 2024, and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'toggle' shortcode. The issue has been classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has a CVSS vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility with low attack complexity (NVD, Wordfence).
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).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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