The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.6.9 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)
History

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Techearty
Techearty carousel\, Slider\, Gallery By Wp Carousel
Weaknesses CWE-79
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:techearty:carousel\,_slider\,_gallery_by_wp_carousel:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Vendors & Products Techearty
Techearty carousel\, Slider\, Gallery By Wp Carousel

Fri, 16 May 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 15 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.6.9 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)
Title Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel < 2.6.9 - Editor+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2025-05-15T20:09:45.188Z

Updated: 2025-05-16T16:29:11.697Z

Reserved: 2024-04-19T15:28:30.672Z

Link: CVE-2024-4002

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-05-16T16:29:01.145Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-05-15T20:15:54.047

Modified: 2025-06-05T14:24:09.747

Link: CVE-2024-4002

cve-icon Redhat

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