What is CVE-2024-3208?

CVE-2024-3208 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Athemes Sydney Toolbox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-04-09.

How severe is CVE-2024-3208?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-3208 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Athemes Sydney Toolbox

CVE-2024-3208

The Sydney Toolbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Filterable Gallery widget in all versions up to, and including, 1.28 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (31.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Athemes Sydney_toolbox
Smub Sydney Toolbox — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3208?: CVE-2024-3208 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Athemes Sydney Toolbox, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-04-09.
How severe is CVE-2024-3208?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-3208 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.