Basil recipe theme vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CVE-2024-39310

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Basil
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 July 2024

What is CVE-2024-39310?

The Basil recipe theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via the post_title parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.0.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses a compromised page. Because the of the default WordPress validation, it is not possible to insert the payload directly but if the Cooked plugin is installed, it is possible to create a recipe post type (cp_recipe) and inject the payload in the title field. Version 2.0.5 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected Version(s)

Basil < 2.0.5

References

https://github.com/XjSv/Basil/security/advisories/GHSA-cr...
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/XjSv/Basil/commit/e2b1dbf1637d1ec2663f...
x_refsource_MISC

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

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