PT-2024-20372 · WordPress · Lightweight Accordion

Krzysztof Zając · Published 2024-04-09 · Updated 2025-02-05 · CVE-2024-2436

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 Lightweight Accordion plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.5.16

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

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 1.5.16, update to a version higher than 1.5.16 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the plugin's shortcode(s) to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-2436

Affected Products

Lightweight Accordion

References · 6

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3056945@lightweight-accordion/trunk&old=2889281@lightweight-accordion/trunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2436 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2436 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/110147 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/lightweight-accordion/trunk/lightweight-accordion.php#L39 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/545dae6b-7983-4f02-a9a0-0be8cf935a78?source=cve · Note