CVE-2024-30555 WordPress Ultimate Social Comments plugin <= 1.4.8 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
Stored XSS in Ultimate Social Comments plugin allows attackers to inject malicious scripts, potentially leading to session hijacking or code execution.
- 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-2024-30555?
CVE-2024-30555 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Sayan Datta Ultimate Social Comments – Email Notification & Lazy Load, published on 31 Mar 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
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Sayan Datta Ultimate Social Comments – Email Notification & Lazy Load allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Ultimate Social Comments – Email Notification & Lazy Load: from n/a through 1.4.8.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-30555?
How do I fix CVE-2024-30555?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-30555 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-2024-30555 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-30555 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wmj5-w7hp-5v9m.