CVE-2024-0254 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The (Simply) Guest Author Name plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's post meta in all versions up to, and including, 4.34 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Shooflysolutions	\(simply\) Guest Author Name

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:shooflysolutions:\(simply\)_guest_author_name:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/guest-author-name/trunk/sfly-guest-author.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3027723%40guest-author-name&new=3027723%40guest-author-name&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0e9e2864-6624-497f-8bec-df8360ed3f4a?source=cve

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-02-05T21:21:33.210Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:41:16.403Z

Reserved: 2024-01-05T18:38:31.012Z

Link: CVE-2024-0254

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:41:16.403Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-02-05T22:15:59.630

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:46:09.470

Link: CVE-2024-0254

Redhat

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