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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-2456
CVE-2024-2456:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-2456) discovered in versions up to and including 6.12.10. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 9, 2024, affecting the plugin's shortcode functionality (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's shortcode implementation. This security flaw 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 (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
Users should update their Ecwid Ecommerce Shopping Cart plugin to a version newer than 6.12.10 to address this vulnerability. The fix has been implemented in subsequent releases (WordPress Plugin).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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