PT-2024-19643 · WordPress · Animated Headline

Tien Luong · Published 2024-03-20 · Updated 2024-03-20 · CVE-2024-2304

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 Animated Headline plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'animated-headline' shortcode. 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 Animated Headline plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'animated-headline' shortcode for users with contributor-level and above permissions until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-2304

Affected Products

Animated Headline

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2304 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-headline · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f589b5d-9cdb-4521-bc60-c8f19d0ef982?source=cve · Note