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GSD-2024-2956

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2024-04-03 05:02

Details

The Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 20231101 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

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CVE-2024-2956

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CVE-2024-2956 (GCVE-0-2024-2956)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 07:34 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:11

Title

Simple Ajax Chat <= 20231101 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Summary

Severity

4.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-02 18:24 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

Wordfence mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
specialk	Simple Ajax Chat – Add a Fast, Secure Chat Box	Affected: 0 , ≤ 20231101 (semver)

Credits

Vincent Fourcade

Show details on NVD website

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