CVE-2024-3665
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Rank Math SEO with AI SEO Tools plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-3665) affecting versions up to and including 1.0.216. The vulnerability was discovered in the plugin's HowTo and FAQ widgets functionality and was disclosed on April 23, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the HowTo and FAQ widgets components. The vulnerability 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 (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

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