CVE-2024-9242
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Memberful – Membership Plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-9242) affecting all versions up to and including 1.73.7. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'memberfulbuysubscriptionlink' and 'memberfulpodcasts_link' shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) according to NVD, and 6.4 (Medium) according to Wordfence. The CVSS vector string is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N, indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, and required privileges (NVD).

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).

Mitigation and workarounds

Users should upgrade to a version newer than 1.73.7 when available. The vulnerability was discovered in version 1.73.7 and earlier versions of the Memberful WordPress plugin (NVD).

Additional resources


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