Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-11727

4.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Notificationx – Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, Fomo, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Top Bar
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 December 2024

Summary

The NotificationX plugin for WordPress is susceptible to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability stemming from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping in its notification content settings. This flaw allows authenticated users with administrator-level privileges to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages, leading to execution upon user access. The vulnerability specifically affects multi-site WordPress installations and those configurations where the unfiltered_html option is disabled, potentially compromising the integrity and security of affected sites.

Affected Version(s)

NotificationX – Live Sales Notification, WooCommerce Sales Popup, FOMO, Social Proof, Announcement Banner & Floating Notification Top Bar * <= 2.9.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3205560/noti...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Nguyen Khanh Hao
.