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Preloader Plus – WordPress Loading Screen Plugin, CVE-2024-6849

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2024-6849

Published on
Sep 07, 2024
Research Description
The Preloader Plus – WordPress Loading Screen Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.
Affected versions
Min -, max 2.2.1.
Status
vulnerable