Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu, CVE-2024-13466

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-13466
Home page URL: Security reports for Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu
Application: Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu
Published on: Jan 30, 2025
Research Description: The Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'autocategorymenu' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7 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.
Affected versions: Min -, max 2.0.8.
Status: vulnerable