PWA Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2024-8967

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Wordpress
Status
Pwa — Easy Way To Progressive Web App
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 October 2024

What is CVE-2024-8967?

The PWA — easy way to Progressive Web App plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

Affected Version(s)

PWA — easy way to Progressive Web App * <= 1.6.3

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id...
https://wordpress.org/plugins/iworks-pwa/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/iworks-pwa/tru...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.4
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Francesco Carlucci
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CVE-2024-8967 : PWA Plugin Vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting