CVE-2024-6849 Information

Description

The Preloader Plus – WordPress Loading Screen Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to and including 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with Author-level access and above to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

Reference

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/85e0e1c5-211f-434c-8cc8-1ca676a8c7c2?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/preloader-plus/tags/2.2.1/inc/preloader-plus.php#L351 https://wordpress.org/plugins/preloader-plus/#developers