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CVE-2024-13097: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Finance WordPress plugin through version 1.3.6 contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-13097. The vulnerability was discovered and publicly disclosed on January 10, 2025. The issue affects the plugin's parameter handling functionality, which fails to properly sanitize and escape user input before reflecting it back in the page (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper input validation where a parameter is not sanitized and escaped before being output back in the page. The issue has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability specifically affects high-privilege users such as administrators (NVD).

Impact

When successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in the context of high-privilege users' browsers, potentially leading to account compromise or other malicious actions within the WordPress admin interface (WPScan).

Community reactions

The vulnerability was discovered and reported by security researcher Hassan Khan Yusufzai (Splint3r7) (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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