# CVE-2024-10146: Simple File List < 6.1.13 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

> Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in Simple File List allows attackers to execute scripts against admin users via unsanitized URLs.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 14 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 14 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c5rh-2mpx-r3x4

## What is CVE-2024-10146?

CVE-2024-10146 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Simple File List, published on 14 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Simple File List WordPress plugin before 6.1.13 does not sanitise and escape a generated URL before outputting it back in an attribute, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against admins.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10146?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Simplefilelist Simple File List.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10146?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10146 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10146 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10146 exists.

Public exploit code:

- Simple File List < 6.1.13 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (nuclei): http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-10146.yaml

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Simple File List

- [CVE-2020-36847](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-36847/): Simple File List < 4.2.3 - Remote Code Execution (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-39924](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-39924/): WordPress Simple File List Plugin <= 6.1.9 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 5.9)
- [CVE-2023-1025](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1025/): Simple File List < 6.0.10 - Admin+ Stored XSS (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10146 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10146 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Simple File List, published on 14 Nov 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10146 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Simple File List. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10146/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10146/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10146
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10146
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10146

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10146/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.