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CVE-2024-24838:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in Five Star Plugins Five Star Restaurant Reviews WordPress plugin versions up to 2.3.5. The vulnerability was disclosed on February 2, 2024, and was assigned identifier CVE-2024-24838 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Patchstack assigned a slightly higher CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 2.3.6 or later of the Five Star Restaurant Reviews plugin to remediate this vulnerability (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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