CVE-2024-0979

June 13, 2024, 6:35 p.m.

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2024-06-13
CVE-2024-0979

CVSS Score

6.1 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

Dashboard Widgets Suite plugin for WordPress

  • up to 3.4.3

Description

The Dashboard Widgets Suite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'tab' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Weaknesses

Date

Published: June 13, 2024, 9:15 a.m.

Last Modified: June 13, 2024, 6:35 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

security@wordfence.com

CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
6.1
Exploitability Score
Impact Score
Base Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3101348%40dashboard-widgets-suite&new=3101348%40dashboard-widgets-suite&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cfe4d99c-9cbd-4255-8f90-f904313d46b4?source=cve
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