shaonsina Sina Extension for Elementor Plugin up to 3.5.2 on WordPress Fancy Text Widget cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in shaonsina Sina Extension for Elementor Plugin up to 3.5.2 on WordPress. This affects an unknown function of the component Fancy Text Widget. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-3988. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in shaonsina Sina Extension for Elementor Plugin up to 3.5.2 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Fancy Text Widget. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Sina Extension for Elementor (Slider, Gallery, Form, Modal, Data Table, Tab, Particle, Free Elementor Widgets & Elementor Templates) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Sina Fancy Text Widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.5.2 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.

The weakness was published by Wesley. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-3988 since 04/19/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated 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 3.5.1, widgets, basic or sina-fancytext.php#L475 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• shaonsina

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• Sina Extension for Elementor Plugin

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• 3.5.0
• 3.5.1
• 3.5.2

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