Simple News <= 2.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via news Shortcode

6.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-10112
CVSS 6.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published October 24, 2024
Last Updated October 25, 2024
Researcher Peter Thaleikis

Description

The Simple News plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'news' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8 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.

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Vulnerability Details for Simple News

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-news (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Remediation No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8

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