What is CVE-2024-5342?

CVE-2024-5342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-5342?

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

XSS in Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode

CVE-2024-5342

The Simple Image Popup Shortcode plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'sips_popup' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.0 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: 0.003 (17.5th 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

Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode — versions 0
Purvabathe Simple_image_popup_shortcode

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5342?: CVE-2024-5342 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Purvabathe Simple Image Popup Shortcode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-5342?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.