CVE-2024-2949 (GCVE-0-2024-2949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-06 06:47 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:09
VLAI?
Title
Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce <= 2.6.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sp_wp_carousel_shortcode'
Summary
The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3 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.
Severity ?
6.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
shapedplugin Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.6.3 (semver)
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Credits
Ngô Thiên An Phuoc Pham
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