WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl, CVE-2024-4000

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-4000
Home page URL: Security reports for WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl
Application: WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl
Published on: May 02, 2024
Research Description: The WordPress Header Builder Plugin – Pearl plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'stm_hb' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.6 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 1.3.7.
Status: vulnerable