Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Phlox Theme Plugin
CVE-2024-1357

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Shortcodes And Extra Features For Phlox Theme
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 April 2024

Summary

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's aux_timeline shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes such as thumb_mode and date_type. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme * <= 2.15.5

References

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

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

Ngô Thiên An
.