CVE-2024-12524

Summary

CVE-2024-12524 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Clinked Client Portal plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 1.9, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. By exploiting insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'clinked-login-button' shortcode, adversaries can execute their malicious code whenever a user accesses an injected page, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data theft.

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