CVE-2024-5708
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WPBakery Visual Composer plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-5708) affecting all versions up to and including 7.7. The vulnerability was disclosed on August 6, 2024, and is tracked with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.4 (Medium) (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'link' parameter. The issue has been classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). The vulnerability has received a CVSS v3.1 vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and required low privileges (NVD).

Impact

This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above, who have post permissions granted by an Administrator, to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

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