PT-2024-16203 · WordPress · Beek Widget Extention

István Márton · Published 2024-10-25 · Updated 2024-10-25 · CVE-2024-10343

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Beek Widget Extention plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.9.5

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcodes due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For Beek Widget Extention plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.9.5, update to a version higher than 0.9.5 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the shortcode feature to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-10343

Affected Products

Beek Widget Extention

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10343 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beek-widget-extention/trunk/inc/call-to-action.php?rev=1249743#L135 · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/8914 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/99487 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4afc8de7-0d7e-4dee-972e-3eb707cd7b2b?source=cve · Note