CVE-2024-12518
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Dec 24, 2024
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2024-12518 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the ShMapper plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.4.18, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'shmMap' shortcode. Successful exploitation leads to the execution of arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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