CVE-2024-1802

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

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Published Mar 7, 2024
Updated: Mar 8, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-1802: The EmbedPress plugin for WordPress, used for embedding PDFs, Google Docs, Vimeo, Wistia, YouTube videos, audios, maps, and documents in Gutenberg and Elementor, is susceptible to Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This vulnerability, affecting all versions up to 3.9.10, stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied URLs in the Wistia embed block. Authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions or higher can exploit this weakness by injecting arbitrary web scripts. The executed scripts will run whenever an affected user accesses an injected page.

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