Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-7556

CVE-2024-7556:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Simple Share WordPress plugin through version 0.5.3 contains a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. This security issue was discovered by Amandeep Singh Banga and was assigned CVE-2024-7556. The vulnerability was publicly disclosed on July 9, 2024, and added to the CVE database on August 10, 2024 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists because the plugin fails to properly sanitize and escape certain settings fields. Specifically, four input fields are affected: Email subject, Email body, Twitter @Via, and Hashtags for Twitter. This vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS 3.1 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 (CISA-ADP).

Impact

The vulnerability allows high-privilege users such as administrators to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even in environments where the unfiltered_html capability is explicitly disallowed, such as in multisite setups. This could potentially lead to client-side code execution in the context of other users' browsers (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

Currently, there is no known fix available for this vulnerability in the Simple Share WordPress plugin (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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