PT-2025-1687 · WordPress · Sweepwidget Contests

Soprobro · Published 2025-01-07 · Updated 2025-01-07 · CVE-2024-11756

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 SweepWidget Contests, Giveaways, Photo Contests, Competitions plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.0.6

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sweepwidget' 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, 2.0.6, consider disabling the 'sweepwidget' shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use the 'sweepwidget' shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script execution. Avoid using user-supplied attributes in the 'sweepwidget' shortcode until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-11756

Affected Products

Sweepwidget Contests

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11756 · Security Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sweepwidget/trunk/sweepwidget.php#L936 · Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f1ec6957-28c0-4441-8801-80b226569df9?source=cve · Note