CVE Alert: CVE-2024-8915
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2024-8915
The Category Icon plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
10/12/2024, 9:15:02 AM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-icon/trunk/category-icon.php#L437
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3167148/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-icon/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1dc4acdc-754f-4ee0-947d-ff0c277e8181?source=cve
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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