What is CVE-2024-5531?

CVE-2024-5531 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oceanwp Ocean Extra, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-5531?

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

XSS in Oceanwp Ocean Extra

CVE-2024-5531

The Ocean Extra plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Flickr widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.8 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 (23.3th 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

Oceanwp Ocean Extra — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5531?: CVE-2024-5531 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Oceanwp Ocean Extra, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-06-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-5531?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.