Stored cross-site scripting in Grid Accordion - CVE-2024-11874
Published: March 20, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU105905
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11874
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: bqworks
Affected software:
Grid Accordion
Grid Accordion
Detailed vulnerability 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 in the "grid_accordion" shortcode. 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.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-11874
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
Sources
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/grid-accordion-lite/tags/1.5.1/public/class-accordion-renderer.php#L172
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/grid-accordion-lite/tags/1.5.1/public/class-grid-accordion.php#L310
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/grid-accordion-lite/tags/1.5.1/public/class-grid-accordion.php#L445
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/grid-accordion-lite/tags/1.5.1/public/class-grid-accordion.php#L98
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7fc20069-5c1d-481a-b0fd-6f29ed6b41ee?source=cve