Featured Image from URL (FIFU), CVE-2024-1496

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-1496
Home page URL: Security reports for Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Application: Featured Image from URL (FIFU)
Published on: Feb 29, 2024
Research Description: The Featured Image from URL (FIFU) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the fifu_input_url parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor access or higher, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Affected versions: Min -, max 4.6.3.
Status: vulnerable