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CVE-2024-51844: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in the WordPress Location Click Map plugin, tracked as CVE-2024-51844. The vulnerability affects versions through 1.0 of the Location Click Map plugin by Kiran Patil. The issue was initially reported on October 26, 2024, and was publicly disclosed on November 8, 2024 (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 vulnerability requires contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

This vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when guests visit the affected site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no official fix available for this vulnerability. The issue affects version 1.0 and earlier versions of the Location Click Map plugin (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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