Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affects Starbox Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-0256

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Starbox – The Author Box For Humans
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 February 2024

What is CVE-2024-0256?

The Starbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Profile Display Name and Social Settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

Starbox – the Author Box for Humans * <= 3.4.8

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3029599/starbox

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lucio Sá
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