CVE-2024-12819

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Description

The Searchie plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sio_embed_media' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.17.0 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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8abed8c7-0c3f-4054-a116-82ce47d605de?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/searchie/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/searchie/trunk/SIO/Shortcodes/WidgetsEmbed.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-09

Updated: 2025-01-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium