CVE-2024-8325

Summary

CVE-2024-8325 identifies a vulnerability in the Blockspare plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.2.4. This issue arises from inadequate input sanitization and output escaping within the ‘blockspare_render_social_sharing_block’ function, allowing authenticated users with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. The potential danger includes execution of these scripts whenever users access the compromised pages, leading to possible data manipulation or theft. To remediate this vulnerability, it is recommended that users update the plugin to version 3.2.5 or later, which addresses this security flaw. The exploitability score is rated at 3.1 (medium), indicating a relatively low complexity for exploitation but still posing a risk to affected organizations.

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