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CVE-2024-9696:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Rescue Shortcodes plugin for WordPress contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-9696) in all versions up to and including 2.8. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'rescue_tab' shortcode 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 NIST (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N). Wordfence has assigned a slightly higher CVSS 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 (NVD).
Impact
Successful exploitation of 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
A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to version 2.9 or later of the Rescue Shortcodes plugin (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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