PT-2024-16769 · WordPress · Serious Slider

Bob Matyas · Published 2024-12-20 · Updated 2024-12-20 · CVE-2024-11108

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Serious Slider WordPress plugin versions prior to 1.2.7

Description The issue arises from the plugin's failure to validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page or post where the shortcode is embedded. This could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.2.7, update to version 1.2.7 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of shortcodes to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using unvalidated and unescaped shortcode attributes in pages or posts until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-11108

Affected Products

Serious Slider

References · 7

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7790af9d-621b-474c-b28c-c774e2a292bb · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11108 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11108 · Security Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1869990923263971813 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/105056 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/13413 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1870000970769297623 · Twitter Post