5.4
MEDIUM
CVE-2024-9873
PeepSo - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in The Community by PeepSo Social Network Plugin
Description

The Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles, Premium – Mobile App plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via URLs in posts, comments, and profiles when Markdown support is enabled in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

INFO

Published Date :

Oct. 16, 2024, 6:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Oct. 16, 2024, 4:38 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

2.3
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-9873 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 Peepso peepso
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2024-9873 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Oct. 16, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description The Community by PeepSo – Social Network, Membership, Registration, User Profiles, Premium – Mobile App plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via URLs in posts, comments, and profiles when Markdown support is enabled in all versions up to, and including, 6.4.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
    Added Reference Wordfence https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/33585791-be40-438c-bebc-8852e7cf8ae5?source=cve [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Wordfence https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3168989/peepso-core/tags/6.4.6.2/peepso.php?old=3157925&old_path=peepso-core%2Ftags%2F6.4.6.1%2Fpeepso.php [No types assigned]
    Added CWE Wordfence CWE-79
    Added CVSS V3.1 Wordfence AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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