PT-2024-35405 · WordPress · Wpbakery Visual Composer

Wesley · Published 2024-06-13 · Updated 2024-07-02 · CVE-2024-5265

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 WPBakery Visual Composer plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 7.6

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the link attribute within the vc single image 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, 7.6, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vc single image shortcode for users with contributor-level access and above until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-5265

Affected Products

Wpbakery Visual Composer

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5265 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5265 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/35a5114e-5c5f-4003-8bb3-77243ffbac1a?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/85033 · Telegram Post
• https://kb.wpbakery.com/docs/preface/release-notes · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/83109 · Telegram Post