CVE-2024-2956

Summary

CVE-2024-2956 is a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Simple Ajax Chat plugin for WordPress. This issue, present in all versions up to and including 20231101, allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the admin settings. Notably, this vulnerability only impacts multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled. Successful exploitation may lead to the execution of malicious scripts whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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