Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-56242

CVE-2024-56242:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in Tyche Softwares' Arconix Shortcodes WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2024-56242. The vulnerability affects versions through 2.1.14 and was discovered by security researcher Peter Thaleikis. The issue was publicly disclosed on December 30, 2024 (Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (CWE-79) issue. It has been assigned 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 authenticated access with Contributor-level privileges or higher to exploit (Patchstack).

Impact

If exploited, this 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 site (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.1.15 of the Arconix Shortcodes plugin. Users are advised to update to version 2.1.15 or later to remediate the security issue (Patchstack).