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CVE-2024-5263: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The ElementsKit Pro plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-5263) affecting all versions up to and including 3.6.2. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's Motion Text and Table widgets due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (Wordfence).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (MEDIUM) according to NVD, and 6.4 (MEDIUM) according to Wordfence. The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating that the vulnerability requires low privileges and user interaction to exploit (NVD).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above 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 access to exploit. The attack can be performed remotely and requires low attack complexity (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Website administrators should update the ElementsKit Pro plugin to a version newer than 3.6.2 to address this vulnerability (Wpmet).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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