CVE-2024-6497

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 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 v3 8.8 HIGH

8.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Api.php#L267
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb3aa613-8f34-4d96-8ddf-41fcdcf65c59?source=cve

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-07-20 09:15

Updated : 2024-07-22 13:00

NVD link : CVE-2024-6497

Mitre link : CVE-2024-6497

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-6497

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-89

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

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