Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Dashboard Widgets Suite for WordPress

CVE-2024-0979

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Specialk
Status: Dashboard Widgets Suite
Vendor: CVE Published:; 13 June 2024

Summary

The Dashboard Widgets Suite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'tab' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Version(s)

Dashboard Widgets Suite <= 3.4.3

CVSS V3.1

Score:

6.1

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

Low

Integrity:

Low

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

None

User Interaction:

Required

Scope:

Changed

Timeline

Vulnerability published.
Jun 13, 2024
Disclosed
Jun 12, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved.
Jan 26, 2024

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Krzysztof Zając