PT-2024-36579 · WordPress · Embedpress

Wesley · Published 2024-06-05 · Updated 2024-06-11 · CVE-2024-5571

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 EmbedPress – Embed PDF, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia, Embed YouTube Videos, Audios, Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 4.0.1

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the url attribute within the plugin's EmbedPress PDF widget 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, 4.0.1, update to a version higher than 4.0.1 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the EmbedPress PDF widget until a patch is available. Restrict contributor-level access and above to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-5571

Affected Products

Embedpress

References · 6

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097114 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5571 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5571 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7becdab6-f952-4649-8cea-4efadf841619?source=cve · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.0.0/EmbedPress/Elementor/Widgets/Embedpress_Pdf.php#L690 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/82049 · Telegram Post