Description

The States Map US plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'states_map' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 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-2024-12523

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.4

Affected Products

Vendor: wssoffice21

Product: States Map US

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/bdd07160-721b-4807-a227-72cd91faef39?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ymc-states-map/trunk/includes/frontend/Shortcode.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ymc-states-map/

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