CVE-2024-50548 WordPress Awesome Progress Bar plugin <= 1.0.13 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
An attacker can inject malicious scripts via DOM-based XSS in the Awesome Progress Bar plugin, potentially compromising user sessions.
- 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-2024-50548?
CVE-2024-50548 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Abdullah Nahian Awesome Progress Bar, published on 19 Nov 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 Abdullah Nahian Awesome Progress Bar awesome-progess-bar allows DOM-Based XSS.This issue affects Awesome Progress Bar: from n/a through <= 1.0.13.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50548?
How do I fix CVE-2024-50548?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-50548 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-2024-50548 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50548 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qjx8-h9wc-h7j9.