litonice13 Master Addons Plugin up to 2.0.6.1 on WordPress Navigation Menu Widget cross site scripting

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in litonice13 Master Addons Plugin up to 2.0.6.1 on WordPress. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Navigation Menu Widget. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-5542. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in litonice13 Master Addons Plugin up to 2.0.6.1 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Navigation Menu 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. CVE summarizes:

The Master Addons – Free Widgets, Hover Effects, Toggle, Conditions, Animations for Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Navigation Menu widget of the plugin's Mega Menu extension in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.6.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The weakness was released by Craig Smith. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5542 since 05/30/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• litonice13

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• Master Addons Plugin

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• 2.0.6.0
• 2.0.6.1

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