Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via SVG File Uploads Vulnerability in Mapplic Lite Plugin for WordPress

CVE-2024-9117

5.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Sekler
Status: Mapplic Lite
Vendor: CVE Published:; 26 September 2024

Summary

The Mapplic Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 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)

Mapplic Lite <= 1.0

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.
Sep 26, 2024
Disclosed
Sep 25, 2024
Vulnerability Reserved.
Sep 23, 2024

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Francesco Carlucci