CVE-2024-8243 (GCVE-0-2024-8243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-09 06:00 – Updated: 2025-04-09 19:09
VLAI?
Title
Plugin Upgrade Time Out <= 1.0 - Stored XSS via CSRF
Summary
The WordPress/Plugin Upgrade Time Out Plugin WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/8e1e2d8d-41aa-49… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WordPress/Plugin Upgrade Time Out Plugin Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0 (semver)
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Credits
Daniel Ruf WPScan
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