rustaurius Front End Users Plugin up to 3.2.30 on WordPress Shortcode forgot-password cross site scripting

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in rustaurius Front End Users Plugin up to 3.2.30 on WordPress. The impacted element is the function forgot-password of the component Shortcode Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-13563. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in rustaurius Front End Users Plugin up to 3.2.30 on WordPress. Affected by this issue is the function forgot-password 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. CVE summarizes:

The Front End Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's forgot-password shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.30 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 weakness was published by Djaidja Moundjid. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-13563 since 01/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. 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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Type

• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• rustaurius

Name

• Front End Users Plugin

Version

• 3.2.0
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.2.7
• 3.2.8
• 3.2.9
• 3.2.10
• 3.2.11
• 3.2.12
• 3.2.13
• 3.2.14
• 3.2.15
• 3.2.16
• 3.2.17
• 3.2.18
• 3.2.19
• 3.2.20
• 3.2.21
• 3.2.22
• 3.2.23
• 3.2.24
• 3.2.25
• 3.2.26
• 3.2.27
• 3.2.28
• 3.2.29
• 3.2.30

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