PT-2024-19592 · WordPress · Knight Lab Timeline

Tien Luong · Published 2024-04-09 · Updated 2024-04-10 · CVE-2024-2287

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 Knight Lab Timeline plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.9.3.3

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's shortcode(s). This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages, which will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For Knight Lab Timeline plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.9.3.3, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the plugin's shortcode(s) to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-2287

Affected Products

Knight Lab Timeline

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2287 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/knight-lab-timelinejs/tags/3.9.3.3&old=3051910&new_path=/knight-lab-timelinejs/tags/3.9.3.4&new=3051910&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1777891069348413901 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/afb3e68e-6f79-4c46-b41e-8fd6eb43c755?source=cve · Note