CVE-2024-6264

Summary

The Post Meta Data Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘$meta_key’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-79: CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9dd6828b-6235-4284-bce6-be23b79ac70e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_post_metadata_html.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_term_metadata_html.php#L32
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_user_metadata_html.php#L31
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3109558/

References

• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9dd6828b-6235-4284-bce6-be23b79ac70e?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_post_metadata_html.php#L23
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_term_metadata_html.php#L32
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-meta-data-manager/trunk/includes/admin/html/pmdm_wp_display_user_metadata_html.php#L31
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3109558/

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