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CVE-2024-5141: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Rotating Tweets (Twitter widget and shortcode) WordPress plugin contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-5141) affecting all versions up to and including 1.9.10. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence, with public disclosure on June 6, 2024 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'rotatingtweets' functionality. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 5.4 (Medium) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N according to NVD assessment, while Wordfence rates it at 6.4 (Medium) with vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, 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 compromised page (NVD).

Exploitability

The vulnerability requires an authenticated user with at least contributor-level privileges to exploit. The attack complexity is considered low, requiring network access and no user interaction according to Wordfence's assessment (Wordfence Advisory).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been identified in the source code of the plugin (WordPress Plugin). Users should update to the latest version of the plugin when available.

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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