CVE-2024-2404 (GCVE-0-2024-2404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-24 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-09 18:46
VLAI?
Title
Better Comments < 1.5.6 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS
Summary
The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a2cb7167-9edc-46… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Better Comments Affected: 0 , < 1.5.6 (semver)
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Credits
Nicolo WPScan
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