SB2024111134 - Stored cross-site scripting in Black Widgets For Elementor plugin for WordPress
Published: November 11, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9388)
CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
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 within SVG File uploads. A remote user can inject 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/618c72b1-363b-41ad-939d-ab2a3b4d579c?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/black-widgets/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/black-widgets/trunk/includes/class-bw.php#L95
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3178366/