CVE-2024-11766: WordPress Book Plugin for Displaying Books in Grid, Flip, Slider, Popup Layout and more <= 1.3.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site S...
Description
The WordPress Book Plugin for Displaying Books in Grid, Flip, Slider, Popup Layout and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'gs_book_showcase' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.1 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-2024-11766
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
Affected Products
Vendor: samdani
Product: WordPress Book Plugin for Displaying Books in Grid, Flip, Slider, Popup Layout and more
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 23.99% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b3b40b73-4dec-4a96-a634-3bd3d74616ba?source=cvehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gs-books-showcase/tags/1.3.1/gs-bookshowcase-files/includes/templates/gs_bookshowcase_structure_1_square.php#L24
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3204642%40gs-books-showcase&new=3204642%40gs-books-showcase&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=