Unprotected Against Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in WP Extended Plugin
CVE-2024-8117

6.1MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 September 2024

What is CVE-2024-8117?

The The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘selected_option’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Version(s)

The Ultimate WordPress Toolkit – WP Extended * <= 3.0.8

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpextended/tru...
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&s...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.1
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Marco Wotschka
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CVE-2024-8117 : Unprotected Against Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in WP Extended Plugin