CVE-2024-12338

Summary

CVE-2024-12338 is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Website Toolbox Community plugin for WordPress. Versions up to 2.0.1 are impacted by this issue. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the ‘websitetoolbox_username’ parameter. This weakness enables unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. Successful exploitation occurs when users are tricked into performing an action such as clicking on a malicious link.

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