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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-1988
CVE-2024-1988:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Post Grid, Form Maker, Popup Maker, WooCommerce Blocks, Post Blocks, Post Carousel – Combo Blocks plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-1988) that affects all versions up to and including 2.2.80. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed in June 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'tag' attribute in blocks. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) by NIST and 6.4 (Medium) by Wordfence. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (NVD).
Impact
When successfully 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).
Mitigation and workarounds
A patch has been released in version 2.2.81 of the plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this vulnerability (Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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