Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in WPBakery Plugin for WordPress
CVE-2024-1841

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
WPbakery Visual Composer
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 May 2024

Summary

The WPBakery plugin for WordPress is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to flawed input sanitization and output escaping in the Post Title tag attribute. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers, possessing contributor access or higher, to embed malicious scripts that can be executed when users view the affected pages. All versions up to and including 7.5 are at risk, potentially compromising the security of websites that utilize this plugin.

Affected Version(s)

WPBakery Visual Composer * <= 7.5

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://kb.wpbakery.com/docs/preface/release-notes/

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

Mdr001
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