PT-2024-39911 · WordPress · Widget/Sidebar Shortcode

Theviper17Y + 1 · Published 2024-10-30 · Updated 2024-11-01 · CVE-2024-9885

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 Widget or Sidebar Shortcode plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 0.6.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'sidebar' shortcode, 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 0.6.1, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the 'sidebar' shortcode.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-9885

Affected Products

Widget/Sidebar Shortcode

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9885 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/9390 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-or-sidebar-per-shortcode/trunk/class-widget-or-sidebar-per-shortcode.php#L89 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-or-sidebar-per-shortcode · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20584675-0d4a-4215-8132-e9ea95bee09b?source=cve · Note