CVE-2024-12523 Information

Description

The States Map US plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin’s ‘states_map’ shortcode in all versions up to and including 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Reference

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ymc-states-map/trunk/includes/frontend/Shortcode.php https://wordpress.org/plugins/ymc-states-map/ https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdd07160-721b-4807-a227-72cd91faef39?source=cve

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

6.4