security vulnerability in Any WordPress plugin's Floating Notification Bar
CVE-2024-4090

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu On Scroll, Announcement Banner, And Sticky Header For Any Theme
Vendor
CVE Published:
1 August 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, Announcement Banner, and Sticky Header for Any WordPress plugin before 2.7.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Affected Version(s)

Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, Announcement Banner, and Sticky Header for Any Theme 0 < 2.7.2

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2024-4090 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/aedcb986-0f2b-4852-baf1-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Krugov Artyom
WPScan
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