Easy Table of Contents Plugin up to 2.0.65 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Easy Table of Contents Plugin up to 2.0.65 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-5573. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Easy Table of Contents Plugin up to 2.0.65 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Setting Handler. 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 Easy Table of Contents WordPress plugin before 2.0.66 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

The weakness was shared by Dmitrii Ignatyev. The advisory is shared for download at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-5573 since 05/31/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed 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.

Upgrading to version 2.0.66 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Easy Table of Contents Plugin

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.0.11
• 2.0.12
• 2.0.13
• 2.0.14
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• 2.0.35
• 2.0.36
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• 2.0.39
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• 2.0.53
• 2.0.54
• 2.0.55
• 2.0.56
• 2.0.57
• 2.0.58
• 2.0.59
• 2.0.60
• 2.0.61
• 2.0.62
• 2.0.63
• 2.0.64
• 2.0.65

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