PT-2024-17308 · WordPress · Social Media Shortcodes

Peter Thaleikis · Published 2024-12-12 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2024-11871

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 Social Media Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.3.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'patreon' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes. This allows 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.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.3.0, consider disabling the patreon shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use the patreon shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script injection. Avoid using user-supplied attributes in the patreon shortcode until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-11871

Affected Products

Social Media Shortcodes

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11871 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-media-shortcodes/tags/1.3.0/social_media_shortcode_plugin.php#L189 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1867171883914842260 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/96f63469-d05d-4c7a-8fc6-165c361a7c82?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/12738 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3206023%40social-media-shortcodes&new=3206023%40social-media-shortcodes&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1867234807991660551 · Twitter Post