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CVE-2024-8433:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Easy Mega Menu Plugin for WordPress – ThemeHunk plugin is affected by a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-8433) in versions up to and including 1.1.0. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Lucio Sá, with public disclosure on October 7, 2024 (Wordfence).
Technical details
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'themehunk_megamenu_bg_image' parameter. The issue has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base 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
When exploited, this 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 an affected page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
A partial fix was implemented in version 1.1.0 with the addition of authorization protection. However, the vulnerability was not completely resolved in this version (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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