CVE-2024-2830
The WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'st_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The WordPress Tag and Category Manager – AI Autotagger plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'st_tag_cloud' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.13.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated 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
- 0.45% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Source
- security@wordfence.com
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.php#L346
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.php#L348
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3060746/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.tagcloud.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0f537479-d5ec-46bb-a04e-2c33a2abc759?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.php#L346
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.php#L348
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3060746/simple-tags/trunk/inc/class.client.tagcloud.php
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0f537479-d5ec-46bb-a04e-2c33a2abc759?source=cve
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.