PT-2024-17605 · WordPress · Arena.Im – Live Blogging For Real-Time Events

Peter Thaleikis · Published 2024-12-12 · Updated 2025-02-27 · CVE-2024-12463

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 Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.3.0

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's arena embed amp 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 Arena.IM – Live Blogging for real-time events plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.3.0: Update to a version higher than 0.3.0 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the arena embed amp shortcode to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the arena embed amp shortcode in pages until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-12463

Affected Products

Arena.Im – Live Blogging For Real-Time Events

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12463 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12463 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1867171907813986455 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112562 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/12707 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L257 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/arena-liveblog-and-chat-tool/trunk/albfre.php#L216 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/729492e8-5625-444f-84ed-36b72cebc722?source=cve · Note