Custom Post Type Attachment, CVE-2024-4546

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4546
Home page URL: Security reports for Custom Post Type Attachment
Application: Custom Post Type Attachment
Published on: May 16, 2024
Research Description: The Custom Post Type Attachment plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'pdf_attachment' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.5 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: max 3.4.6.
Status: vulnerable