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CVE-2024-13706: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Image Uploader plugin for WordPress contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-13706) discovered on January 30, 2025. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 1.0.1, and is caused by insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'file' parameter (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) issue, identified as CWE-79. It has received 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, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no privileges required, and user interaction required for exploitation (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

The 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 compromise of user sessions and data theft (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update the WP Image Uploader plugin to a version newer than 1.0.1 if available, or consider removing the plugin if it's not essential to website operations (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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