Rescue Shortcodes, CVE-2024-9696

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-9696
Home page URL: Security reports for Rescue Shortcodes
Application: Rescue Shortcodes
Published on: Oct 12, 2024
Research Description: The Rescue Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'rescue_tab' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.8 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 2.9.
Status: vulnerable