Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Library Bookshelves Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-13464

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Status
Library Bookshelves
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 February 2025

Summary

The Library Bookshelves plugin for WordPress has a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with contributor-level access and above to exploit the 'bookshelf' shortcode. Due to the lack of proper input sanitization and output escaping for user-supplied attributes, malicious scripts can be injected into pages. When other users access those pages, the injected scripts execute, potentially compromising their data and security.

Affected Version(s)

Library Bookshelves * <= 5.9

References

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

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

Peter Thaleikis
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