Cross-site scripting in WordPress - CVE-2024-6307
Published: June 25, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU93314
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6307
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote user to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data within the HTML API. A remote user 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.
Affected software
WordPress
Fedora
wordpress
Fedora
wordpress
How to mitigate CVE-2024-6307
Install updates from vendor's website.
WordPress - addressed in versions 4.1.41, 4.2.38, 4.3.34, 4.4.33, 4.5.32, 4.6.29, 4.7.29, 4.8.25, 4.9.26, 5.0.22, 5.1.19, 5.2.21, 5.3.18, 5.4.16, 5.5.15, 5.6.14, 5.7.12, 5.8.10, 5.9.10, 6.0.9, 6.1.7, 6.2.6, 6.3.5, 6.4.5, 6.5.5
wordpress - addressed in versions 6.5.5-1.el9, 6.5.5-1.fc39, 6.5.5-1.fc40
wordpress - addressed in versions 6.5.5-1.el9, 6.5.5-1.fc39, 6.5.5-1.fc40