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CVE-2024-49298: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The PeproDev Ultimate Invoice WordPress plugin contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2024-49298) affecting versions up to and including 2.0.6. The vulnerability was discovered by researcher LVT-tholv2k and publicly disclosed on October 15, 2024 (WPScan, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has 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. The issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin (WPScan).

Impact

This 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 affected pages, potentially leading to session hijacking, defacement, or other malicious actions (WPScan, Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.0.7 of the PeproDev Ultimate Invoice plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to remediate the security issue (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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