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CVE-2024-6011:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Cost Calculator Builder plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-6011) affecting all versions up to and including 3.2.12. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on July 2, 2024 (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists in the 'textarea.description' parameter due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.8 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating a network-accessible vulnerability requiring high privileges and user interaction (NVD).
Impact
When successfully exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Administrator-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to version 3.2.13 or later of the Cost Calculator Builder plugin, which contains the fix for this vulnerability. A patch has been released and is available through the WordPress plugin repository (Patch).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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