Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affects Simple Ajax Chat Plugin
CVE-2024-2956

4.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

WordPress
Status
Simple Ajax Chat – Add A Fast, Secure Chat Box
Vendor
CVE Published:
27 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-2956?

The Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20231101 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected Version(s)

Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box 0 <= 20231101

References

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

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Fourcade
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