PT-2024-22441 · WordPress · The Betterdocs

Krzysztof Zając · Published 2024-04-09 · Updated 2024-04-10 · CVE-2024-2845

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 The BetterDocs – Best Documentation, FAQ & Knowledge Base Plugin with AI Support & Instant Answer For Elementor & Gutenberg versions up to, and including, 3.4.2

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's shortcode(s), allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. These scripts will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 3.4.2, 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-2024-2845

Affected Products

The Betterdocs

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2845 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2d113191-b550-4752-b536-644206ab56c1?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3057976%40betterdocs%2Ftrunk&old=3055881%40betterdocs%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note