Description

The Simple Locator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's shortcodes in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.3 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-2024-12501

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

Affected Products

Vendor: kylephillips

Product: Simple Locator

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.07% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 32.53% (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/38cb5e43-56d0-40b6-936a-f10f15d2e72f?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-locator/tags/2.0.3/app/API/AllLocationsShortcode.php#L19
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-locator/tags/2.0.3/app/API/FormShortcode.php#L31
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3207747%40simple-locator&new=3207747%40simple-locator&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

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