PT-2024-24873 · WordPress · Follow Us Badges

Lucio Sá · Published 2024-05-02 · Updated 2024-05-02 · CVE-2024-3280

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 Follow Us Badges plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.1.10

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's wpsite follow us badges 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 versions up to, and including, 3.1.10, update to a version higher than 3.1.10 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wpsite follow us badges shortcode until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-3280

Affected Products

Follow Us Badges

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3280 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/78809 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1785947313153945633 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3078718/wpsite-follow-us-badges · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ef1ccef8-9066-4f5c-b5c5-9fa6e54f0e87?source=cve · Note