High Privilege Users Can Perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks via Unfiltered HTML Settings
CVE-2024-6165

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Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Wanotifier
Vendor
CVE Published:
31 July 2024

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👾 Exploit Exists🟡 Public PoC

What is CVE-2024-6165?

The WANotifier WordPress plugin before 2.6.1 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)

WANotifier 0 < 2.6.1

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.

CVE-2024-6165 - Proof of Concept

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b9e6648a-9d19-4e73-ad6c-...
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Timeline

  • 🟡

    Public PoC available

  • 👾

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Bob Matyas
WPScan
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CVE-2024-6165 : High Privilege Users Can Perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting Attacks via Unfiltered HTML Settings