CVE-2024-1808

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

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Published Feb 28, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-1808 is a vulnerability found in the WP Shortcodes Plugin — Shortcodes Ultimate plugin for WordPress version 7.0.3 and below, allowing stored cross-site scripting attacks. This occurs due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes, enabling authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The risk score for this vulnerability is 25, with a base severity of MEDIUM. The exploitability score is 3.1, indicating a relatively low level of difficulty for attackers. While the integrity and confidentiality impacts are low, this vulnerability poses a potential danger as it allows the execution of malicious scripts when users access affected pages. It is important for organizations to apply the necessary updates or patches provided by the plugin developer to remediate this vulnerability and protect their WordPress websites.

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