CVE-2024-49224: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Mitm Bug Tracker WordPress plugin through version 1.0 contains a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Mika on October 7, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on October 14, 2024. The issue has been assigned CVE-2024-49224 (Patchstack).

The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue, specifically of the reflected type, falling under the OWASP Top 10 category A3: Injection. It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1 MEDIUM from NIST (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N) and a score of 7.1 HIGH from Patchstack (Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L) (Patchstack).

The vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected site. The vulnerability is particularly concerning as it requires no authentication to exploit (Patchstack).

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. However, Patchstack has issued a virtual patch to mitigate the issue by blocking potential attacks until an official fix becomes available. Users are advised to implement the mitigation immediately (Patchstack).