CVE-2024-10181 Newsletters <= 4.9.9.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via newsletters_video Shortcode

What is CVE-2024-10181?

CVE-2024-10181 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in contrid Newsletters, published on 29 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Newsletters plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's newsletters_video shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.9.9.4 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10181?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Tribulant Newsletters.

How do I fix CVE-2024-10181?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10181 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-2024-10181 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-10181 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in contrid Newsletters

• CVE-2018-20987 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-8247 Newsletters <= 4.9.9.2 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation High 8.8
• CVE-2019-14788 Path traversal in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2025-4857 Newsletters <= 4.9.9.9 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Local File Inclusion High 7.2
• CVE-2023-4797 Newsletter Lite < 4.9.3 - Admin+ Command Injection High 7.2

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-xh4r-mhwh-vp8q.