PT-2024-31227 · WordPress · Sydney Toolbox

Ancorn + 1 · Published 2024-05-14 · Updated 2025-02-20 · CVE-2024-4473

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, 1.31

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the "aThemes: Portfolio" 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 Sydney Toolbox plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 1.31, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "aThemes: Portfolio" widget to prevent authenticated attackers from injecting arbitrary web scripts.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-4473

Affected Products

Sydney Toolbox

References · 5

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3082233/sydney-toolbox · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4473 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4473 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/60f16abd-951b-48a0-a363-0221f7e0957d?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/111941 · Telegram Post