CVE-2024-13612
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
01/02/2025
Last modified:
20/02/2025
Description
The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'better_messages_live_chat_button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:wordplus:better_messages:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 2.7.0 (excluding) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L125
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bp-better-messages/trunk/inc/shortcodes.php#L84
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3228965/
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/169a857f-1ae0-40f6-8a34-10c573af59c5?source=cve



