Arbitrary Script Injection Vulnerability in TinyMCE Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2024-8627

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Josh401
Status: Ultimate Tinymce
Vendor: CVE Published:; 30 October 2024

Summary

The Ultimate TinyMCE plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'field' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.7 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)

Ultimate TinyMCE <= 5.7

CVSS V3.1

Score:

5.4

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

Low

Integrity:

Low

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

Required

Scope:

Changed

Timeline

Vulnerability published.
Oct 30, 2024
Disclosed
Oct 29, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved.
Sep 9, 2024

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Francesco Carlucci