jakob42 Reaction Buttons Plugin up to 2.1.6 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in jakob42 Reaction Buttons Plugin up to 2.1.6 on WordPress and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Setting Handler. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-13848. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in jakob42 Reaction Buttons Plugin up to 2.1.6 on WordPress. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Setting 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 Reaction Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 2.1.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, 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 published by Pham Van Tam. The advisory is available at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-13848 since 02/08/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.9

VulDB Base Score: 2.4
VulDB Temp Score: 2.4
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CNA Base Score: 5.5
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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-79 / CWE-94 / CWE-74
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: wordfence.com
Researcher: Pham Van Tam
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-13848 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-13848
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-296090

Entryinfo

Created: 02/18/2025 08:06
Updated: 02/18/2025 08:09
Changes: 02/18/2025 08:06 (30), 02/18/2025 08:09 (35)
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Committer: mitr
Cache ID: 216::103

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