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CVE-2024-4313:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Table Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-4313) affecting all versions up to and including 2.1.2. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on June 21, 2024 (Wordfence Advisory).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the '_id' parameter. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) by NVD with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, while Wordfence assigned a score of 6.4 (Medium) with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).
Impact
The 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).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should update to version 2.1.3 or later which contains fixes for this vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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