PT-2024-39924 · WordPress · Parallax Image

Peter Thaleikis · Published 2024-10-17 · Updated 2025-12-12 · CVE-2024-9898

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 Parallax Image plugin for WordPress version 1.8 and earlier

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's dd-parallax 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 Parallax Image plugin for WordPress version 1.8 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.8 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the dd-parallax shortcode to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-9898

Affected Products

Parallax Image

References · 11

• 🔥 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/parallax-image/trunk/assets/shortcode.php#L145 · Exploit
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3170176 · Patch
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3170176/#file16 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9898 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cveNotify/145650 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/8162 · Telegram Post
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/parallax-image/#developers · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1846875752614031704 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/98444 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/57641366-85d3-4375-8cde-041227c9f811?source=cve · Note