CVE-2024-11756

Summary

CVE-2024-11756 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the SweepWidget Contests, Giveaways, Photo Contests, and Competitions plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 2.0.6, stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'sweepwidget' shortcode. Consequently, authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or above can inject arbitrary web scripts. Once injected, these scripts will execute whenever an unsuspecting user accesses an affected page.

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