CVE-2024-1496

Summary

CVE-2024-1496 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress. This issue allows authenticated attackers, including those with contributor access or higher, to inject malicious scripts into pages by exploiting insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the fifu_input_url parameter. Successful exploitation results in the execution of arbitrary web scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page. Versions up to and including 4.6.2 of the FIFU plugin are vulnerable to this issue.

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