CVE-2024-12440

Summary

CVE-2024-12440 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Candifly plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.0.6, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts via the plugin's 'candifly' shortcode. The insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes create an avenue for the attacker to execute arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page. This vulnerability poses a significant security risk, particularly for WordPress sites using the Candifly plugin, and it is recommended that users upgrade to the latest available version as soon as possible to mitigate the threat.

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