CVE-2024-9451

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)

Published: Oct 9, 2024 / Updated: 41d ago

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CVSS 6.4EPSS 0.07%Medium
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The Embed PDF Viewer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'height' and 'width' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Timeline

First Article

Feedly found the first article mentioning CVE-2024-9451. See article

Oct 9, 2024 at 7:39 AM / CVE
CVSS Estimate

Feedly estimated the CVSS score as MEDIUM

Oct 9, 2024 at 7:41 AM
CVE Assignment

NVD published the first details for CVE-2024-9451

Oct 9, 2024 at 8:15 AM
CVSS

A CVSS base score of 6.4 has been assigned.

Oct 9, 2024 at 8:15 AM / nvd
EPSS

EPSS Score was set to: 0.07% (Percentile: 30.9%)

Oct 10, 2024 at 10:30 AM
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Affected Systems

Wordpress/wordpress
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Attack Patterns

CAPEC-209: XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch
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News

Update Sun Oct 27 14:34:00 UTC 2024
Update Sun Oct 27 14:34:00 UTC 2024
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (October 7, 2024 to October 13, 2024)
WordPress Plugins with Reported Vulnerabilities Last Week The team rolled out enhanced protection via firewall rules for the following vulnerabilities in real-time to our Premium, Care, and Response customers last week:
US-CERT Vulnerability Summary for the Week of October 7, 2024
ABB–RobotWare 6 An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could cause the robot to stop. A vulnerability exists in the PROFINET stack included in the RobotWare versions listed below. This vulnerability arises under specific condition when specially crafted message is processed by the system. Below are reported vulnerabilities in the Robot Ware versions. * IRC5- RobotWare 6 2024-10-10 5.1 CVE-2024-6157 [email protected] adamskaat–Read more By Adam The Read more By Adam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized loss of data due to a missing capability check on the deleteRm() function in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to delete read more buttons. 2024-10-12 4.3 CVE-2024-9187 [email protected] [email protected] adobe — animate Animate versions 23.0.7, 24.0.4 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. 2024-10-09 5.5 CVE-2024-47419 [email protected] adobe — animate Animate versions 23.0.7, 24.0.4 and earlier are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR.
Update Thu Oct 10 14:37:03 UTC 2024
Update Thu Oct 10 14:37:03 UTC 2024
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- MEDIUM - CVE-2024-9451 The Embed PDF Viewer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'height' and 'width' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.
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CVSS V3.1

Attack Vector:Network
Attack Complexity:Low
Privileges Required:Low
User Interaction:None
Scope:Changed
Confidentiality:Low
Integrity:Low
Availability Impact:None

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