# CVE-2024-4372: Carousel Slider < 2.2.11 - Editor+ Stored XSS

> Editors can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized parameters in the Carousel Slider 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:** 21 May 2024
- **Updated:** 27 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vw93-wqr3-x7vr

## What is CVE-2024-4372?

CVE-2024-4372 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Carousel Slider, published on 21 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 Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.11 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-2024-4372?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Majeedraza Carousel Slider.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-4372?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4372 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4372 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4372 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Carousel Slider

- [CVE-2023-41848](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41848/): WordPress Carousel Slider plugin <= 2.2.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-6850](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6850/): Carousel Slider < 2.2.14 - Editor+ Stored XSS (medium 4.8)
- [CVE-2024-3703](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3703/): Carousel Slider < 2.2.10 - Editor+ Stored XSS (medium 4.7)
- [CVE-2024-1712](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1712/): Carousel Slider < 2.2.7 - Editor+ Stored XSS (medium 4.7)
- [CVE-2024-45269](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-45269/): Cross-site request forgery in Carousel Slider (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4372 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4372 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Carousel Slider, published on 21 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4372 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Carousel Slider. 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-2024-4372/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4372/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4372
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4372
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4372

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4372/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.