Cloud Vulnerability DB
A community-led vulnerabilities database
Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-37519
CVE-2024-37519:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Leap13 Premium Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress affecting versions through 2.1.27. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher 4rCanJ0x! and was published on July 5, 2024 (Patchstack Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has been assigned CVE-2024-37519. It 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 according to Patchstack's assessment (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 Advisory).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users are advised to update to version 2.1.28 or later to remediate this vulnerability. For those using Patchstack, a virtual patch has been issued to mitigate this issue by blocking any attacks until the update can be applied (Patchstack Advisory).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
Related WordPress vulnerabilities:
Free Vulnerability Assessment
Benchmark your Cloud Security Posture
Evaluate your cloud security practices across 9 security domains to benchmark your risk level and identify gaps in your defenses.
Additional Wiz resources
Get a personalized demo
Ready to see Wiz in action?
"Best User Experience I have ever seen, provides full visibility to cloud workloads."
David EstlickCISO
"Wiz provides a single pane of glass to see what is going on in our cloud environments."
Adam FletcherChief Security Officer
"We know that if Wiz identifies something as critical, it actually is."
Greg PoniatowskiHead of Threat and Vulnerability Management