Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Embed PDF Viewer for WordPress

CVE-2024-9451

6.4MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor: Embed PDF Viewer
Vendor: CVE Published:; 9 October 2024

Summary

The Embed PDF Viewer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'height' and 'width' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 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.

CVSS V3.1

Score:

6.4

Severity:

MEDIUM

Confidentiality:

Low

Integrity:

Low

Availability:

None

Attack Vector:

Network

Attack Complexity:

Low

Privileges Required:

Low

User Interaction:

None

Scope:

Changed

Timeline

Vulnerability published.
Oct 9, 2024

Collectors

NVD Database