CVE-2024-4000
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
02/05/2024
Last modified:
15/04/2026
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.40
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3078437%40pearl-header-builder&new=3078437%40pearl-header-builder&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c23bba83-35d2-4098-8104-8389bb2ff880?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3078437%40pearl-header-builder&new=3078437%40pearl-header-builder&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c23bba83-35d2-4098-8104-8389bb2ff880?source=cve



