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2 vulnerabilities found for Embed PDF Viewer by afragen

CVE-2024-9451 (GCVE-0-2024-9451)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2024-10-09 07:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:17
VLAI
Title
Embed PDF Viewer <= 2.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via height and width Parameters
Summary
The Embed PDF Viewer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'height' and 'width' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 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.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
afragen Embed PDF Viewer Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.4.4 (semver)
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Credits
Christofer Roth
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CVE-2024-9451 (GCVE-0-2024-9451)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-09 07:33 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:17
VLAI
Title
Embed PDF Viewer <= 2.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via height and width Parameters
Summary
The Embed PDF Viewer plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'height' and 'width' parameters in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.4 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.
Severity
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
afragen Embed PDF Viewer Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.4.4 (semver)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Christofer Roth
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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