CVE-2024-13721

Jan. 25, 2025, 6:15 a.m.

6.4
Medium

Description

The Plethora Plugins Tabs + Accordions plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the anchor parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
Plethora Plugins Tabs + Accordions plugin for WordPress
  • up to 1.1.8

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-85
Doubled Character XSS Manipulations
The web application does not filter user-controlled input for executable script disguised using doubling of the involved characters.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/plethora-tabs-accordions/trunk/plethoraplugins-tabs.php#L423
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9755e5d4-dbf6-4778-84d6-cc967e8afb48?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2025-01-25
CVE-2024-13721
CWE-85

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

  • Attack Vector: NETWORK
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • Scope: CHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact: LOW
  • Integrity Impact: LOW
  • Availability Impact: NONE

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

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Timeline

Published: Jan. 25, 2025, 6:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Jan. 25, 2025, 6:15 a.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

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