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CVE-2024-8488:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Survey Maker plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-8488) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 4.9.7. The vulnerability was discovered and reported on October 7, 2024, by security researcher Jonas Benjamin Friedli (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Survey fields functionality. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.4 (MEDIUM) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/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, Wordfence).
Impact
The vulnerability only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. When exploited, it allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts that execute when users access the affected pages (NVD).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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