CVE-2024-3956 Cross-site scripting in Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields
Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via the Pod Form widget, 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
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-3956?
CVE-2024-3956 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in sc0ttkclark Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields, published on 10 May 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 Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Pod Form widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.1 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-2024-3956?
How do I fix CVE-2024-3956?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-3956 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-2024-3956 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3956 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-q686-mxxq-25r2.