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1 vulnerability by websitetoolbox

CVE-2024-12338 (GCVE-0-2024-12338)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-12 03:23 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:31
VLAI?
Title
Website Toolbox Community <= 2.0.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via websitetoolbox_username
Summary
The Website Toolbox Community plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘websitetoolbox_username’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
websitetoolbox Website Toolbox Forum Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.0.1 (semver)
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Credits
vgo0
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