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CVE-2024-2165: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The SEOPress – On-site SEO plugin for WordPress (versions up to 7.5.2.1) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability identified as CVE-2024-2165. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence, with the initial disclosure made on April 9, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the image alt parameter. It 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. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation) (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with author access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page (NVD).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with author-level privileges or higher to exploit. The attack complexity is considered low, and no user interaction is required for the exploit to be successful (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should update their SEOPress plugin to a version newer than 7.5.2.1. The vulnerability has been addressed in subsequent releases (Wordfence).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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