CVE-2024-13612

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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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L84

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L127

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L125

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-02-01

Updated: 2025-02-01

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