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CVE-2024-1572: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP ULike plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-1572) that affects all versions up to and including 4.6.9. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'wp_ulike' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on the user-supplied 'wrapper_class' attribute (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper input validation and output escaping in the 'wrapper_class' attribute of the 'wp_ulike' shortcode. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base 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).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit. The attack vector is network-accessible (N) with low attack complexity (L) and requires low privileges (PR:L) (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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