# CVE-2024-5578: Table of Contents Plus <= 2408 - Editor+ Stored XSS

> High-privilege users can inject malicious scripts via plugin settings, leading to stored XSS attacks in WordPress installations.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Nov 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-4p84-57xr-x7v6

## What is CVE-2024-5578?

CVE-2024-5578 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Table of Contents Plus, published on 5 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Table of Contents Plus WordPress plugin through 2408 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5578?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Dublue Table of Contents Plus.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5578?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5578 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5578 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-5578 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Table of Contents Plus

- [CVE-2023-44473](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-44473/): WordPress Table of Contents Plus Plugin <= 2302 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-4479](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-4479/): Table of Contents Plus < 2212 - Contributor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-49250](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-49250/): WordPress Table of Contents Plus plugin <= 2408 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5578 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5578 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Table of Contents Plus, published on 5 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, 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-2024-5578 exists.

Affected product: Unknown Table of Contents Plus. 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-2024-5578/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5578/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5578
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5578
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5578

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5578/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.