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CVE-2024-54407: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The CVE-2024-54407 affects CK and SyntaxHighlighter WordPress plugin through version 3.4.2. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by SOPROBRO, and was disclosed on December 12, 2024. It is classified as a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that can lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (HIGH) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L. The vulnerability is classified under CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and requires user interaction to be exploited (NVD).

Impact

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow an attacker to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. The vulnerability affects confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system, each with a low impact rating (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

As of the disclosure date, no official fix is available for this vulnerability. The security issue has been assessed as having a low severity impact and is considered unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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