CVE-2024-8189

Summary

CVE-2024-8189 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability affecting the WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 0.1.17, allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the 'wpmt_menu_name' parameter. This issue poses a risk for multi-site installations and those with unfiltered_html disabled, enabling the execution of malicious scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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