What is CVE-2024-2089?

CVE-2024-2089 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-05-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-2089?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode

CVE-2024-2089

The Remote Content Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'remote_content' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-2089?: CVE-2024-2089 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Doublesharp Remote Content Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-05-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-2089?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.