CVE-2024-7891 Floating Contact Button < 2.8 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admins can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Floating Contact Button plugin, leading to stored XSS attacks.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-7891?
CVE-2024-7891 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Floating Contact Button, published on 10 Sep 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Floating Contact Button WordPress plugin before 2.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-7891?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Just-a-Web-Developer Floating Contact Button.
How do I fix CVE-2024-7891?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-7891 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-2024-7891 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-7891 exists.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gvqc-g8mm-r66f.