otwthemes Toggles Shortcode and Widget Plugin up to 1.14 on WordPress content cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in otwthemes Toggles Shortcode and Widget Plugin up to 1.14 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument content results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-12207. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in otwthemes Toggles Shortcode and Widget Plugin up to 1.14 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown part. The manipulation of the argument content 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. CVE summarizes:

The Toggles Shortcode and Widget plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘content’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.14 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

The weakness was disclosed by Yamil Rosa. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-12207 since 12/04/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is 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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• otwthemes

Name

• Toggles Shortcode and Widget Plugin

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14

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