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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-8236
CVE-2024-8236:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-8236) affecting versions up to and including 3.25.7. The vulnerability exists in the 'url' parameter of the Icon widget due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 6.4 (Medium). The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L), no user interaction (UI:N), and has changed scope (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impact (C:L, I:L) and no availability impact (A:N) (NVD).
Impact
This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-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 update their Elementor Website Builder plugin to a version newer than 3.25.7 which contains the security fix (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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