VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2024-4002
The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.6.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the…
LOW 3.5EPSS 0.34%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.34%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.6.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.5 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.34% probability · 27th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- techearty/carousel\, slider\, gallery by wp carousel
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
References
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/298b51ec-afad-4bc1-968d-76c59e55fc05/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.