Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Remote Content Shortcode Plugin Affects WordPress Pages
CVE-2024-2089

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Remote Content Shortcode
Vendor
CVE Published:
30 May 2024

What is CVE-2024-2089?

The Remote Content Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'remote_content' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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)

Remote Content Shortcode * <= 1.5

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/remote-content-shortcode/

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:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Francesco Carlucci
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CVE-2024-2089 : Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Remote Content Shortcode Plugin Affects WordPress Pages