CVE-2024-2500
The ColorMag theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a user's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.42%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The ColorMag theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via a user's Display Name in all versions up to, and including, 3.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authentciated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, 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
- 0.42% probability · 36th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/colormag/3.1.6/inc/template-tags.php#L845
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=221537%40colormag&new=221537%40colormag&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b44d89-6f1e-4a23-91ea-e79fc3221183?source=cve
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/colormag/3.1.6/inc/template-tags.php#L845
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=221537%40colormag&new=221537%40colormag&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a4b44d89-6f1e-4a23-91ea-e79fc3221183?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.