PT-2025-2184 · WordPress · Atakan Au Automatically Hierarchic Categories In Menu

Djaidja Moundjid + 1 · Published 2025-01-30 · Updated 2025-01-30 · CVE-2024-13466

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.0.7

Description The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'autocategorymenu' 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, 2.0.7, consider disabling the autocategorymenu shortcode until a patch is available to prevent exploitation. Restrict access to pages that use this shortcode to minimize the risk of arbitrary web script injection. Avoid using user-supplied attributes in the autocategorymenu shortcode until the issue is resolved. Update to a version later than 2.0.7 when available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-13466

Affected Products

Atakan Au Automatically Hierarchic Categories In Menu

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13466 · Security Note
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad01d01a-d1d9-4c4e-9818-52298c2df89c?source=cve · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/109150 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3229318%40automatically-hierarchic-categories-in-menu&new=3229318%40automatically-hierarchic-categories-in-menu&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1884948993740099586 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/automatically-hierarchic-categories-in-menu/trunk/includes/class-auto-hierarchic-category-menu.php#L312 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/automatically-hierarchic-categories-in-menu · Note