CVE-2024-2459

Summary

CVE-2024-2459 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the UX Flat plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to 4.1, allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level permissions and above to inject malicious scripts. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes within the 'button' shortcode. Consequently, injected pages will execute the malicious scripts whenever a user accesses them.

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