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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-2252
CVE-2024-2252:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Droit Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-2252) affecting all versions up to and including 3.1.5. The vulnerability was discovered by Francesco Carlucci and publicly disclosed on March 7, 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes such as URLs in the plugin's widgets. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N (Wordfence).
Impact
When exploited, this 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 the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Due to the security risk, the plugin has been removed from the WordPress plugin repository. Users are advised to immediately remove or disable the plugin from their WordPress installations as no patch is currently available (WordPress Plugin).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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