Security Risk: Unsanitised Settings Can Lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
CVE-2024-5002

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Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
User Submitted Posts
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 July 2024

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

What is CVE-2024-5002?

The User Submitted Posts WordPress plugin before 20240516 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

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Affected Version(s)

User Submitted Posts 0 < 20240516

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-2024-5002 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/da09b99a-fa40-428f-80b4-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Guido Iván García Duva
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