CVE-2024-11453 Cross-site scripting in GS Pinterest Portfolio – Pins Grid, Masonry, User Profile, Popup & Board Widgets
Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcode attributes, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-11453?
CVE-2024-11453 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in samdani GS Pinterest Portfolio – Pins Grid, Masonry, User Profile, Popup & Board Widgets, published on 3 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The WordPress Pinterest Plugin – Make a Popup, User Profile, Masonry and Gallery Layout plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'gs_pin_widget' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.8.8 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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11453?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gsplugins Gs Pinterest Portfolio.
How do I fix CVE-2024-11453?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11453 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-2024-11453 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11453 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-xfgx-fjwq-f72v.