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CVE-2024-38744: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability has been identified in Upqode Plum: Spin Wheel & Email Pop-up plugin version 2.0 and earlier. The vulnerability allows unauthorized access to functionality not properly constrained by Access Control Lists (ACLs) and enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 8.3 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The weakness is categorized under CWE-862 (Missing Authorization). The vulnerability affects all versions of the plugin through version 2.0 (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability is considered highly dangerous and is expected to become mass exploited. It could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which will be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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