PT-2024-27889 · WordPress · Salient Shortcodes

István Márton · Published 2024-05-18 · Updated 2024-05-20 · CVE-2024-3811

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 Salient Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.5.3

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'icon' 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 Salient Shortcodes plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.5.3, update to a version higher than 1.5.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'icon' shortcode for users with contributor-level access and above until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-3811

Affected Products

Salient Shortcodes

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3811 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/70682a2d-16f6-4d7e-bf69-f0f3999f03de?source=cve · Note
• https://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4363266 · Note
• https://twitter.com/linuxpatch/status/1791726874072060194 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/80346 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1791925425418932295 · Twitter Post