CVE-2024-1408

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Feb 29, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-1408 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Paid Membership Plugin, specifically versions up to and including 4.14.4, used in WordPress websites. This issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes such as 'type' in the edit-profile-text-box shortcode. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above can exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary web scripts, which subsequently execute whenever a user visits an injected page.

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