CVE-2024-7356
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Zephyr Project Manager plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-7356) discovered in versions up to and including 3.3.100. The vulnerability was disclosed on August 3, 2024, affecting the WordPress plugin's 'filename' parameter functionality (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'filename' parameter. This security flaw has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) by NIST with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. Wordfence has assigned it a slightly higher CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (NVD).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page, potentially leading to unauthorized data access or manipulation (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been patched in version 3.3.101 of the Zephyr Project Manager plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (WordPress Plugin).

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