CVE-2024-5177
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published May 23, 2024
Updated: May 24, 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-5177 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Hash Elements plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to and including 1.3.8, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied 'url' parameters within multiple widgets. As a result, whenever a user accesses an injected page, the malicious scripts will execute.
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