Carousel Slider <= 2.2.6 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 2.2.7
- Affected Plugin
- Responsive Tabs
- Affected Version
<= 2.2.6- CVSS
- 5.5Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2024-1712
At a glance
CVE-2024-1712 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the Responsive Tabs WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.2.6. It carries a CVSS score of 5.5 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Editor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 2.2.7; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed March 2024, reported by Dmitrii Ignatyev.
Vulnerability Overview
The Responsive Tabs plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the Slides Per View parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6 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.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in Responsive Tabs <= 2.2.6 takes an account at Editor level or above. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For Responsive Tabs the fix is 2.2.7: builds <= 2.2.6 are affected, anything from 2.2.7 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 2.2.7, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
An attacker needs Editor access first, so the firewall sees the attempt as traffic from a logged-in account: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Responsive Tabs 2.2.7 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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