Description

The SearchIQ – The Search Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'siq_searchbox' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-10885

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

Affected Products

Vendor: searchiq

Product: SearchIQ – The Search Solution

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 24.01% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/86e8e16f-9d93-457a-9093-2fd236e51682?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/searchiq/tags/4.6/library/shortcode.php#L66
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3198694/searchiq/trunk/library/shortcode.php

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