CVE-2024-5571 Information

Description

The EmbedPress – Embed PDF Google Docs Vimeo Wistia Embed YouTube Videos Audios Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ attribute within the plugin’s EmbedPress PDF widget in all versions up to and including 4.0.1 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://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7becdab6-f952-4649-8cea-4efadf841619?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/embedpress/tags/4.0.0/EmbedPress/Elementor/Widgets/Embedpress_Pdf.php#L690 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3097114/ The EmbedPress – Embed PDF Google Docs Vimeo Wistia Embed YouTube Videos Audios Maps & Embed Any Documents in Gutenberg & Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ attribute within the plugin’s EmbedPress PDF widget in all versions up to and including 4.0.1 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.

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