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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-22158
CVE-2024-22158:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in PeepSo Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles plugin for WordPress in versions before 6.3.1.0. The vulnerability was identified on January 16, 2024, and was assigned CVE-2024-22158 (Patchstack, WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) from Patchstack with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin (NVD, Patchstack).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with subscriber-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an affected page, potentially leading to session manipulation and data exposure (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 6.3.1.0 or later of the PeepSo Core: Photos plugin to address this vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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