CVE-2024-8486
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Oct 5, 2024
Updated: Oct 7, 2024
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2024-8486 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Phlox theme plugin for WordPress. The issue lies in the insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'url' parameter in the Modern Heading and Icon Picker widgets, which are used in all versions up to and including 2.16.3. This weakness enables authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and higher, to inject malicious web scripts that execute whenever a user accesses a manipulated page.
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