Stored Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress Plugin by SEO Friendly Accordion FAQ
CVE-2024-13458

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Status
WordPress Seo Friendly Accordion Faq With Ai Assisted Content Generation
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 January 2025

Summary

The SEO Friendly Accordion FAQ plugin for WordPress suffers from a vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers, with contributor-level privileges and above, to exploit the 'noticefaq' shortcode. This flaw arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes, permitting the injection of arbitrary web scripts. Consequently, these malicious scripts trigger when any user accesses an affected page, posing a significant security risk to the site's integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

WordPress SEO Friendly Accordion FAQ with AI assisted content generation * <= 2.2.1

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/notice-faq/tru...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

SOPROBRO
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