A vulnerability has been found in Team Members Plugin up to 5.3.1 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Shortcode Attribute Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Team Members WordPress plugin before 5.3.2 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the author role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

The weakness was shared by Dmitrii Ignatyev. It is possible to read the advisory at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-1331 since 02/07/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 5.3.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Team Members Plugin

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• 5.3.0
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