CVE-2024-11442
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Summary
CVE-2024-11442 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Horizontal scroll image slideshow plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 10.1, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin's 'horizontal-scroll-image-slideshow' shortcode. Successful exploitation leads to the execution of injected scripts whenever a user accesses an affected page.
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