WP jQuery DataTable, CVE-2024-12499

CVE, Research URL: CVE-2024-12499
Home page URL: Security reports for WP jQuery DataTable
Application: WP jQuery DataTable
Published on: Jan 07, 2025
Research Description: The WP jQuery DataTable plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wp_jdt' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 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 4.1.0.
Status: vulnerable