CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-1840
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-05-02
- 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 wpbakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Post Author tag attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected configurations
• wpbakery page builder (< 7.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://kb.wpbakery.com/docs/preface/release-notes/ Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb8ecbbc-ada9-4887-92e6-25a587ecfb84?source=cve Third Party Advisory
- https://kb.wpbakery.com/docs/preface/release-notes/ Release Notes
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/cb8ecbbc-ada9-4887-92e6-25a587ecfb84?source=cve Third Party Advisory