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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-9177
CVE-2024-9177:
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Themedy Toolbox plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-9177) affecting versions up to and including 1.0.14, and up to 1.0.15 for the themedybutton shortcode. The vulnerability exists in multiple shortcodes including themedycol, themedysociallink, themedyalertbox, and themedypullleft due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as a Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) issue 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). The scope is changed (S:C) with low confidentiality and integrity impacts (C:L, I:L) (NVD).
Impact
The 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).
Mitigation and workarounds
The plugin has been closed as of October 23, 2024, due to security issues. Users should update to version 1.0.16 which contains security fixes for the vulnerability (WordPress Plugin).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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