CVE-2024-8857

Jan. 7, 2025, 4:15 p.m.

4.8
Medium

Description

The WordPress Auction Plugin WordPress plugin through 3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Product(s) Impacted

Product Versions
WordPress Auction Plugin WordPress plugin
  • up to 3.7

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/08ca6daa-09f4-4604-ac9e-15a1b33d599d/

Tags

CWE-79
contact@wpscan.com
2025-01-07
CVE-2024-8857

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 3.1

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

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

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Timeline

Published: Jan. 7, 2025, 6:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Jan. 7, 2025, 4:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

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

More info

Source

contact@wpscan.com

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