Vulnerability CVE-2024-8547


Published: 2024-09-28

Description:
The Simple Popup Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's [popup] shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for 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.

Type:

CWE-79

(Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

 References:
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/217da4de-38df-41ff-b138-f12d4f8999cd?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-popup-plugin/trunk/simple_popup_plugin.php#L87

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