CVE-2024-29927
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in HasTheme's WishSuite WordPress plugin affecting versions up to 1.3.7. The vulnerability was reported on January 13, 2024, and publicly disclosed on March 25, 2024 (Patchstack).

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) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

If exploited, this vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which would be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability has been assessed as having a low priority for patching, with a low likelihood of exploitation. It requires contributor-level access to the WordPress installation to exploit (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.3.8 of the WishSuite plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later. Additionally, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to the fixed version (Patchstack).

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