CVE-2024-13578

Summary

CVE-2024-13578 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP-BibTeX plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 3.0.1, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the plugin's 'WpBibTeX' shortcode. Successful exploitation enables the attacker to execute arbitrary web scripts, posing a significant threat to users who access the injected pages.

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