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CVE-2024-47341: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP-DownloadManager plugin for WordPress contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-47341) affecting versions up to and including 1.68.8. The vulnerability was discovered by Le Ngoc Anh and publicly disclosed on September 27, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (WPScan).

Impact

This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users perform specific actions, such as clicking on a malicious link. The successful exploitation could lead to the execution of malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads on the affected website (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users are advised to update to version 1.68.9 or later to resolve the vulnerability. Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate this issue by blocking potential attacks until users can update to a fixed version (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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