CVE-2024-6704 (GCVE-0-2024-6704)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-02 10:59 – Updated: 2026-04-08 17:34
VLAI?
Title
Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.21 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection
Summary
The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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
advancedcoding Comments – wpDiscuz Affected: 0 , ≤ 7.6.21 (semver)
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Credits
Tieu Pham Trong Nhan
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