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CVE-2024-2170:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The VK All in One Expansion Unit plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-2170) affecting versions up to and including 9.96.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on March 25, 2024, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes such as 'className' in the child page index widget. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and required low privileges (Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions 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 at least contributor-level permissions to exploit. The attack can be executed remotely through network access, with low attack complexity (Wordfence).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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