CVE-2024-5220

May 25, 2024, 2:15 a.m.

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2024-05-25
CVE-2024-5220

CVSS Score

6.4 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

ND Shortcodes plugin for WordPress

  • up to 7.5

Description

The ND Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's upload feature in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Weaknesses

Date

Published: May 25, 2024, 2:15 a.m.

Last Modified: May 25, 2024, 2:15 a.m.

Status : Received

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

LOW

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score
6.4
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:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/nd-shortcodes/tags/7.3/nd-shortcodes.php#L63
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3091778/nd-shortcodes/trunk/nd-shortcodes.php
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https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5cbd6040-0446-41fe-8fef-c9065beeaa3a?source=cve
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