Comments Plugin up to 7.6.21 on WordPress cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Comments Plugin up to 7.6.21 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Performing a manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-6704. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Comments Plugin up to 7.6.21 on WordPress. It has been classified as problematic. This affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-6704 since 07/11/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. 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.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-47748). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• Comments Plugin

Version

• 7.6.0
• 7.6.1
• 7.6.2
• 7.6.3
• 7.6.4
• 7.6.5
• 7.6.6
• 7.6.7
• 7.6.8
• 7.6.9
• 7.6.10
• 7.6.11
• 7.6.12
• 7.6.13
• 7.6.14
• 7.6.15
• 7.6.16
• 7.6.17
• 7.6.18
• 7.6.19
• 7.6.20
• 7.6.21

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