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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-5440
CVE-2024-5440:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2024-5440 affects the If-So Dynamic Content Personalization WordPress plugin versions before 1.8.0.3. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Felipe Caon, and was publicly disclosed on May 10, 2024 (WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue that occurs because the plugin does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embedded. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.8 (medium) and is classified under CWE-79 (WPScan).
Impact
Users with contributor role and above can exploit this vulnerability to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks on the affected WordPress installations. This could potentially allow attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code that executes in visitors' browsers (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.8.0.3 of the If-So Dynamic Content Personalization plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WPScan).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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