PT-2025-9057 · WordPress · Mk Google Directions

Zakaria · Published 2025-02-28 · Updated 2025-02-28 · CVE-2024-12820

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 MK Google Directions plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 3.1

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the 'MKGD' 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 MK Google Directions plugin for WordPress versions up to and including 3.1, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the 'MKGD' shortcode to prevent authenticated attackers from injecting arbitrary web scripts.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-12820

Affected Products

Mk Google Directions

References · 8

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12820 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12820 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/112753 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/23b3570c-cd8e-4dec-bbad-6374c44530bd?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1895619344622903322 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19129 · Telegram Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3246361/google-distance-calculator/tags/3.1.1/mk-google-directions.php?old=3046209&old_path=google-distance-calculator%2Ftags%2F3.1%2Fmk-google-directions.php · Note
• https://twitter.com/VulmonFeeds/status/1895418760997007665 · Twitter Post