CVE-2024-1421

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

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Published Mar 12, 2024
Updated: Mar 13, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-1421 is a vulnerability found in the HT Mega – Absolute Addons For Elementor plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.4.4. The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page, due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'border_type' attribute of the Post Carousel widget. The risk score for this vulnerability is 26, with a base severity of MEDIUM and a base score of 6.4. Remediation steps should include updating the plugin to the latest version, which addresses the vulnerability. This vulnerability poses a potential danger to organizations using the affected plugin, as it can lead to unauthorized script execution on their websites.

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