CVE-2024-0559 Enhanced Text Widget < 1.6.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admins can inject malicious scripts via widget options in Enhanced Text Widget, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-0559?
CVE-2024-0559 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Enhanced Text Widget, published on 11 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Enhanced Text Widget WordPress plugin before 1.6.6 does not validate and escape some of its Widget options before outputting them back in attributes, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-0559?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Inisev Enhanced Text Widget.
How do I fix CVE-2024-0559?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-0559 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2024-0559 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-0559 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gq6r-j83x-w77v.