What is CVE-2024-5162?

CVE-2024-5162 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibabar Prettyphoto – Simple Lightbox Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-5162?

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

XSS in Ibabar Prettyphoto – Simple Lightbox Plugin

CVE-2024-5162

The WordPress prettyPhoto plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 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.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.9th 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

Ibabar Prettyphoto – Simple Lightbox Plugin — versions 0
Master-addons Prettyphoto

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5162?: CVE-2024-5162 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ibabar Prettyphoto – Simple Lightbox Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-5162?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.