CVE-2024-11756

Summary

CVE-2024-11756: A critical vulnerability affects the SweepWidget Contests plugin for WordPress. This issue, which impacts all versions up to 2.0.6, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts. The flaw, caused by insufficient sanitization and output escaping of user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'sweepwidget' shortcode, results in stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Consequently, injected pages can execute arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses them.

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