SB2024110641 - Cross-site scripting in Dear Flipbook – PDF Flipbook, 3D Flipbook, PDF embed, PDF viewer plugin for WordPress

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8717)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "pdf_source" parameter. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6d4c2944-28e8-4866-b4da-91cf12d9d115?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/3d-flipbook-dflip-lite/trunk/assets/js/dflip.min.js
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3172275/