Pop-Up Banners Plugin Vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-5799

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
Cm Pop-up Banners For WordPress
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 September 2024

Badges

👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

Summary

The CM Pop-Up Banners for WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its popup fields, which could allow high privilege users such as Contributors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected Version(s)

CM Pop-Up Banners for WordPress 0 < 1.7.3

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-2024-5799 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3ee3023a-541c-40e6-8d62-...
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Eunho Kim
WPScan
.