bdthemes Ultimate Post Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.11.7 on WordPress url cross site scripting

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in bdthemes Ultimate Post Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.11.7 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing a manipulation of the argument url results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-5662. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in bdthemes Ultimate Post Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin up to 3.11.7 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument url with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Ultimate Post Kit Addons For Elementor – (Post Grid, Post Carousel, Post Slider, Category List, Post Tabs, Timeline, Post Ticker, Tag Cloud) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter within the Social Count (Static) widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.11.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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 presented by Wesley. It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-5662 since 06/05/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• bdthemes

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• Ultimate Post Kit Addons for Elementor Plugin

Version

• 3.11.0
• 3.11.1
• 3.11.2
• 3.11.3
• 3.11.4
• 3.11.5
• 3.11.6
• 3.11.7

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