CVE-2024-13575: Web Stories Enhancer – Level Up Your Web Stories <= 1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The Web Stories Enhancer – Level Up Your Web Stories plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'web_stories_enhancer' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3 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-2024-13575
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Affected Products
Vendor: magazine3
Product: Web Stories Enhancer – Level Up Your Web Stories
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 5.17% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-03-19 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fdc614f2-37a6-474a-828a-1f34f98715c5?source=cvehttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/web-stories-enhancer/trunk/includes/shortcode.php#L99
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3238312%40web-stories-enhancer&new=3238312%40web-stories-enhancer&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=