PT-2024-28531 · WordPress · The Pods – Custom Content Types/Fields

Wesley · Published 2024-05-10 · Updated 2024-05-14 · CVE-2024-3956

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.2.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the Pod Form widget, 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, 3.2.1, update to a version higher than 3.2.1 to resolve the issue.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-3956

Affected Products

The Pods – Custom Content Types/Fields

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3956 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/pods/tags/3.2.1/ui/front/form.php#L105 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3083418/pods/tags/3.1.4.1/includes/data.php · Note
• https://pods.io/2024/05/08/pods-3-2-1-1-security-release · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a0707c92-96e9-444a-8a13-52d49c9e3f5c?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3083418/pods/tags/3.1.4.1/ui/front/form.php · Note