PT-2024-36506 · WordPress · Ocean Extra

Wesley · Published 2024-06-11 · Updated 2024-06-11 · CVE-2024-5531

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 Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.2.8

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the Flickr 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 Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 2.2.8, update to a version higher than 2.2.8 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the Flickr widget for users with contributor-level access and above until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-5531

Affected Products

Ocean Extra

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5531 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ocean-extra/tags/2.2.8/includes/widgets/flickr.php#L59 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b39e17c5-711f-4229-90f4-213ea65a190d?source=cve · Note