croixhaug Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin up to 1.6.8.3 on WordPress accent_color/background parameter cross site scripting

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in croixhaug Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin up to 1.6.8.3 on WordPress. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Executing a manipulation of the argument accent_color/background parameter can lead to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-13431. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in croixhaug Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin up to 1.6.8.3 on WordPress. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument accent_color/background parameter with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. CVE summarizes:

The Appointment Booking Calendar — Simply Schedule Appointments Booking Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the accent_color and background parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.8.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

The weakness was released by Luciano Hanna. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-13431 since 01/15/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful 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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• Appointment Software

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• croixhaug

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• Appointment Booking Calendar Plugin

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• 1.6.8.0
• 1.6.8.1
• 1.6.8.2
• 1.6.8.3

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