CVE-2024-2402 Better Comments < 1.5.6 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Better Comments plugin, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-2402?
CVE-2024-2402 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Better Comments, published on 24 Apr 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 Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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-2024-2402?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Utopique Better Comments.
How do I fix CVE-2024-2402?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-2402 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-2024-2402 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2402 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Better Comments
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m5xj-5946-r5xw.