PT-2024-20689 · WordPress · Squelch Tabs/Accordions Shortcodes

Francesco Carlucci · Published 2024-04-05 · Updated 2024-04-08 · CVE-2024-2499

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 Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.4.3

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'accordions' 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 Squelch Tabs and Accordions Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 0.4.3, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. 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-2024-2499

Affected Products

Squelch Tabs/Accordions Shortcodes

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2499 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3052812/squelch-tabs-and-accordions-shortcodes · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/adf10ad4-38b2-44be-bdc6-ba6b62e9fbe6?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1776237780747628836 · Twitter Post