Stored Cross-Site Scripting in Web Stories Enhancer Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-13575

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
WordPress
Status
Web Stories Enhancer – Level Up Your Web Stories
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 February 2025

Summary

The Web Stories Enhancer plugin for WordPress contains a vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to perform stored cross-site scripting (XSS). This occurs through the plugin's 'web_stories_enhancer' shortcode, which fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input and escape output. As a result, attackers can inject malicious web scripts into pages, leading to potential execution whenever a user accesses the compromised page.

Affected Version(s)

Web Stories Enhancer – Level Up Your Web Stories * <= 1.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-stories-en...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

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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