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CVE-2024-53797: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

CVE-2024-53797 is a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in The Beaver Builder Team's Beaver Builder WordPress plugin, affecting versions through 2.8.4.3. The vulnerability was reported on November 9, 2024, by João Pedro S Alcântara (Kinorth) and was publicly disclosed on December 2, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (Cross-site Scripting) issue, identified as CWE-79. It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) from NIST and 6.5 (Medium) from Patchstack. The vulnerability requires authenticated access with Contributor-level privileges or higher (NVD).

Impact

This stored XSS vulnerability could allow malicious actors to inject malicious scripts, including redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into the website. These injected scripts would be executed when visitors access the affected pages (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.8.4.4 of the Beaver Builder 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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