6.4Medium

CVE-2024-8045Advanced WordPress Backgrounds <= 1.12.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via imageTag Parameter

nko Advanced WordPress Backgrounds Published: 2024-09-11 10:31 (2 years ago)

Description

The Advanced WordPress Backgrounds plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘imageTag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.12.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Weakness (CWE): CWE-79

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

Vendor	Product	Versions
nko	Advanced WordPress Backgrounds	≤ 1.12.3

References and patches

CVSS score

6.4Medium

Source: Wordfence · CVSS 3.1

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: Low
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

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

EPSS (chance of exploitation in 30 days)

0.34%

higher than 28% of all CVEs

CISA assessment (SSVC)

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Timeline

ID reserved2024-08-21
Published2024-09-11 10:31
Reached IP-DB2026-10-24 23:54
Last updated2026-04-08 20:02

Assigned by (CNA): Wordfence

View at source: CVE.org · NVD

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