CVE-2024-9049: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

The Beaver Builder – WordPress Page Builder plugin for WordPress (CVE-2024-9049) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in versions up to and including 2.8.3.6. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's Button Group module due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) according to NVD, and 6.4 (Medium) according to Wordfence. The attack vector is network-based (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring low privileges (PR:L) and user interaction (UI:R) in a changed scope (S:C) (NVD).

This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, potentially leading to compromised user sessions and data theft (NVD).

The vulnerability has been patched in version 2.8.3.7 of the Beaver Builder plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (NVD).