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CVE-2024-47307: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Essential Plugin Meta slider and carousel with lightbox, affecting versions through 2.0.1. The vulnerability was discovered by Robert DeVore and was assigned CVE-2024-47307. The issue was published on September 25, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) issue, identified as CWE-79. 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, indicating that it requires low attack complexity but needs low privileges and user interaction to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website, which would be executed when guests visit the site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 2.0.2 or later to remediate this vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update functionality for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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