CVE-2024-8857 (GCVE-0-2024-8857)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-07 06:00
Modified
2025-01-07 15:17
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
The WordPress Auction Plugin WordPress plugin through 3.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WordPress Auction Plugin Version: 0   ≤ 3.7
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