Unfiltered HTML Settings in Photoswipe Plugin Can Lead to Stored XSS Attacks
CVE-2024-5473
Currently unrated
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 26 June 2024
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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC
What is CVE-2024-5473?
The Simple Photoswipe WordPress plugin through 0.1 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).
Affected Version(s)
Simple Photoswipe 0 <= 0.1
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.