CVE-2024-8486 Information

Description

The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in the Modern Heading and Icon Picker widgets all versions up to and including 2.16.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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/09316a23-3a99-47f2-9c3f-795dc0a4a792?source=cve https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/trunk/includes/elementor/widgets/heading-modern.php#L1168 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/trunk/includes/elementor/widgets/heading-modern.php#L1205 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/trunk/includes/elementor/widgets/icon.php#L397 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3161415/ The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in the Modern Heading and Icon Picker widgets all versions up to and including 2.16.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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