CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-13612
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'better_messages_live_chat_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 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.
Affected configurations
• wordplus better messages (< 2.7.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L125 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L127 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L84 Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/ Patch
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve Third Party Advisory