# CVE-2024-3026: WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons < 9.7.8 - Editor+ Stored XSS

> Editors can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized parameters in the MaxButtons plugin, potentially compromising user sessions.

- **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:** 13 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8h2w-mrjw-fq93

## What is CVE-2024-3026?

CVE-2024-3026 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons, published on 13 Jul 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 WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons WordPress plugin before 9.7.8 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as editor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3026?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Maxfoundry Maxbuttons.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-3026?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3026 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-3026 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-3026 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons

- [CVE-2023-36503](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-36503/): WordPress MaxButtons Plugin <= 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-7029](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-7029/): WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.6 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-6499](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6499/): WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.8 - Full Path Disclosure (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-10555](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10555/): MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Button Width (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2024-8968](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8968/): MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Text Color (medium 4.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-3026 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-3026 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons, published on 13 Jul 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-2024-3026 exists.

Affected product: Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons. 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-2024-3026/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3026/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-3026
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3026
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-3026

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3026/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.