PT-2024-22866 · WordPress · Sydney Toolbox

Ancorn + 3 · Published 2024-03-28 · Updated 2024-04-02 · CVE-2024-2936

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 Sydney Toolbox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.26

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the id attribute of widgets 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 Sydney Toolbox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.26, update to a version higher than 1.26 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the id attribute of widgets to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-2936

Affected Products

Sydney Toolbox

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-2936 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3059286%40sydney-toolbox&new=3059286%40sydney-toolbox&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2936 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/75090 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/RedPacketSec/status/1775086953634898140 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1773589097543618620 · Twitter Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0b20d638-82cb-48ce-96fa-fd42d06f649f?source=cve · Note