CVE-2024-5571

June 5, 2024, 12:53 p.m.

6.4
Medium

Description

The EmbedPress – Embed PDF, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia, Embed YouTube Videos, Audios, Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'url' attribute within the plugin's EmbedPress PDF widget in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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
EmbedPress Plugin for WordPress
  • ['up to 4.0.1']
EmbedPress - WordPress plugin
  • ['up to 4.0.1']

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.0.0/EmbedPress/Elementor/Widgets/Embedpress_Pdf.php#L690
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097114/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7becdab6-f952-4649-8cea-4efadf841619?source=cve

Tags

security@wordfence.com
2024-06-05
CVE-2024-5571

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: June 5, 2024, 9:15 a.m.
Last Modified: June 5, 2024, 12:53 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

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