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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-50431
CVE-2024-50431:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
A Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Cloudways Breeze WordPress plugin affecting versions through 2.1.14. The vulnerability was reported on September 30, 2024, and publicly disclosed on October 24, 2024 (Patchstack).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has been assigned CVE-2024-50431. The issue received a CVSS v3.1 score of 5.9 (Medium), with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L (Patchstack).
Impact
This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website which will be executed when guests visit the site. The specific impact may vary case by case (Patchstack).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 2.1.15 of the Breeze plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.1.15 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can enable auto-update for vulnerable plugins (Patchstack).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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