Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Salient Shortcodes Plugin

CVE-2024-3811
6.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor
Themenectar
Status
Salient Shortcodes
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 May 2024

Summary

The Salient Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'icon' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected Version(s)

Salient Shortcodes <= 1.5.3

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Disclosed

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

  • Discovered

  • Vendor Notified

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

István Márton
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