Podlove Podcast Publisher Plugin up to 4.1.23 on WordPress Setting cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Podlove Podcast Publisher Plugin up to 4.1.23 on WordPress and classified as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Setting Handler. This manipulation causes cross site scripting. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-13729. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Podlove Podcast Publisher Plugin up to 4.1.23 on WordPress. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Setting Handler. The manipulation 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Podlove Podcast Publisher WordPress plugin before 4.1.24 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

The weakness was presented by Krugov Artyom. The advisory is shared at wpscan.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-13729 since 01/24/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 4.1.24 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WordPress Plugin

Vendor

• Podlove

Name

• Podcast Publisher Plugin

Version

• 4.1.0
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.1.3
• 4.1.4
• 4.1.5
• 4.1.6
• 4.1.7
• 4.1.8
• 4.1.9
• 4.1.10
• 4.1.11
• 4.1.12
• 4.1.13
• 4.1.14
• 4.1.15
• 4.1.16
• 4.1.17
• 4.1.18
• 4.1.19
• 4.1.20
• 4.1.21
• 4.1.22
• 4.1.23

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