CVE-2024-2304
The Animated Headline plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animated-headline' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.33%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Animated Headline plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'animated-headline' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.33% probability · 25th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-headline/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f589b5d-9cdb-4521-bc60-c8f19d0ef982?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/animated-headline/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6f589b5d-9cdb-4521-bc60-c8f19d0ef982?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.