CVE-2024-9445
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.4 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Oct 4, 2024
Updated: Oct 10, 2024
CWE ID 79
Summary
CVE-2024-9445 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Display Medium Posts plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 5.0.1, permits authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the plugin's display_medium_posts shortcode. Consequently, injected pages will execute arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses them.
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