Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Affects Phlox Theme Plugin
CVE-2024-8486
5.4MEDIUM
Key Information:
- Vendor
Wordpress
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 5 October 2024
What is CVE-2024-8486?
The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the āurlā parameter in the Modern Heading and Icon Picker widgets all versions up to, and including, 2.16.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected Version(s)
Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme * <= 2.16.3