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CVE-2024-8666: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Shoutcast Icecast HTML5 Radio Player plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-8666) discovered on October 25, 2024. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.1.6 of the plugin. The issue exists in the plugin's 'html5radio' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability 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 weakness is categorized as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation), commonly known as Cross-site Scripting (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Website administrators running the affected plugin should update to a version newer than 2.1.6 when available. In the meantime, it is recommended to restrict access to the plugin's functionality to trusted users only (NVD).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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