PT-2025-9802 · WordPress · The Master Slider

Peter Thaleikis · Published 2025-03-05 · Updated 2025-03-06 · CVE-2024-11731

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 The Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 3.10.6

Description The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's ms slider shortcode. This allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages. The injected scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the injected page.

Recommendations For versions up to, and including, 3.10.6, update to a version that addresses the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping issue in the ms slider shortcode.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-11731

Affected Products

The Master Slider

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11731 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-11731 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.0/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L526 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/113537 · Telegram Post
• https://wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f1dcafe1-bdba-4476-bcc7-ad844da38a01?source=cve · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1897506932748927109 · Twitter Post
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/master-slider/tags/3.10.8/includes/msp-shortcodes.php#L526 · Note
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3288436 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/master-slider/#developers · Note
• https://t.me/cvedetector/19625 · Telegram Post