#VU100229 Stored cross-site scripting in Black Widgets For Elementor - CVE-2024-9388
Published: November 11, 2024
Black Widgets For Elementor
Modernaweb
Description
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
External links
- 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/