CVE-2024-8720

Summary

CVE-2024-8720: A critical Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects the RumbleTalk Live Group Chat – HTML5 plugin for WordPress. This issue, existing in all versions up to 6.3.0, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'rumbletalk-admin-button' shortcode. Consequently, injected pages can execute any web script when accessed, posing a significant risk to website security.

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