CVE-2024-4865

CVSS 3.1 Score 6.4 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published May 18, 2024
Updated: May 20, 2024

Summary

CVE-2024-4865 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting the Happy Addons plugin for WordPress. This issue, which exists in all versions up to 3.10.8, allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to execute stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. The vulnerability arises due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the '_id' parameter. Attackers can exploit this flaw by injecting arbitrary web scripts, which will execute whenever a user visits an injected page, posing a significant security risk.

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