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CVE-2024-8500: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-8500) affecting all versions up to and including 7.2.2. The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Wordfence, with the initial disclosure on October 23, 2024 (NVD CVE).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin's functionality. It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) (NVD CVE).

Impact

When exploited, 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 CVE).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update their WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin to version 7.3.0 or later (Wordpress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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