CVE-2024-9024

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Sep 25, 2024
Updated: Oct 2, 2024
CWE ID 79

Summary

CVE-2024-9024 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Material Design Icons plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 0.0.5, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the mdi-icon shortcode. Consequently, any page containing an injected shortcode will execute the malicious scripts whenever a user accesses it.

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