Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder Plugin up to 3.19.20 on WordPress Shortcode cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder Plugin up to 3.19.20 on WordPress. This affects an unknown function of the component Shortcode Handler. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-5251. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder Plugin up to 3.19.20 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Shortcode 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Ultimate Addons for WPBakery plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's ultimate_pricing shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.19.20 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 advisory is shared at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5251 since 05/22/2024. 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. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

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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• Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder Plugin

Version

• 3.19.0
• 3.19.1
• 3.19.2
• 3.19.3
• 3.19.4
• 3.19.5
• 3.19.6
• 3.19.7
• 3.19.8
• 3.19.9
• 3.19.10
• 3.19.11
• 3.19.12
• 3.19.13
• 3.19.14
• 3.19.15
• 3.19.16
• 3.19.17
• 3.19.18
• 3.19.19
• 3.19.20

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