Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in SweepWidget Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-11756

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Sweepwidget Contests, Giveaways, Photo Contests, Competitions
Vendor
CVE Published:
7 January 2025

What is CVE-2024-11756?

The SweepWidget plugin for WordPress is affected by a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied data within the 'sweepwidget' shortcode. This vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 2.0.6, allowing authenticated users with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. These scripts execute whenever a user loads a compromised page, posing a significant risk to both the website’s integrity and its users’ data.

Affected Version(s)

SweepWidget Contests, Giveaways, Photo Contests, Competitions * <= 2.0.6

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sweepwidget/tr...

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

SOPROBRO
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