CVE-2024-1977 Cross-site scripting in Restaurant Solutions – Checklist

Medium 4.4 Published Updated

Administrators can inject arbitrary scripts in multi-site or restricted HTML WordPress installations via the Checklist points feature.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2024-1977?

CVE-2024-1977 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in foucciano Restaurant Solutions – Checklist, published on 29 Feb 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Restaurant Solutions – Checklist plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Checklist points in version 1.0.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1977?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Josephlopreste Restaurant Solutions - Checklist.

How do I fix CVE-2024-1977?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1977 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-2024-1977 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1977 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-p7f2-66rr-gm45.

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