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MEDIUM
CVE-2024-6704
WordPress wpDiscuz HTML Injection Vulnerability
Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.

INFO

Published Date :

Aug. 2, 2024, 11:16 a.m.

Last Modified :

Aug. 2, 2024, 12:59 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

1.4

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2024-6704 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-6704 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Gvectors wpdiscuz
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

CVE-2024-6704 - [Wordpress wpDiscuz_Plugin] < Unauthenticated HTML Injection Exploiter

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Python

Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Born at : Aug. 3, 2024, 10:33 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-6704 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Aug. 02, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.
    Added Reference Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fa3501a4-7975-4f90-8037-f8a06c293c07?source=cve [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpdiscuz/trunk/class.WpdiscuzCore.php#L335 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3124810/ [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Wordfence CWE-79
    Added CVSS V3.1 Wordfence AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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