CVE-2024-32695
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Language Switcher for Transposh plugin, affecting versions up to 1.5.9. The vulnerability was discovered on January 3, 2024, and publicly disclosed on April 19, 2024. This security issue allows for improper neutralization of input during web page generation (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2024-32695 and received a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.1 (High), with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and requires no authentication to exploit, though it does require user interaction (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts will be executed when visitors access the affected site, potentially compromising user security and website integrity (Patchstack).

Exploitability

The vulnerability is considered moderately dangerous and is expected to become exploited. It requires no authentication to exploit, though user interaction is necessary. The attack vector is network-accessible, with low attack complexity (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Website administrators are advised to update to version 1.6.0 or later to resolve the vulnerability. For Patchstack users, a virtual patch has been issued to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until the update can be applied (Patchstack).

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