Vulnerabilities > CVE-2024-6497
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH network
low complexity
Summary
The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 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.
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb3aa613-8f34-4d96-8ddf-41fcdcf65c59?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Api.php#L267
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/