CVE-2024-1977
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Restaurant Solutions – Checklist WordPress plugin version 1.0.0 is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability was assigned CVE-2024-1977 and was publicly disclosed on February 28, 2024 (Wizlynx Advisory).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation and output encoding in the 'Add new checklist' functionality where checklist points can be added. The CVSS v3.1 score is 4.8 (Medium) with vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N according to NVD. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. The impact is limited to multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled (NVD).

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