What is CVE-2024-1401?

CVE-2024-1401 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awplife Profile Box Shortcode And Widget, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-03-19.

How severe is CVE-2024-1401?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-1401 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Awplife Profile Box Shortcode And Widget

CVE-2024-1401

The Profile Box Shortcode And Widget WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (34.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Awplife Profile_box_shortcode_and_widget
Unknown Profile Box Shortcode And Widget — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1401?: CVE-2024-1401 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Awplife Profile Box Shortcode And Widget, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-03-19.
How severe is CVE-2024-1401?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1401 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.