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CVE-2024-1396: The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘title_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.7 due to...
CVE-2024-1396 · published 2 years ago
Summary
The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘title_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attacker...
What to do
- Update averta shortcodes_and_extra_features_for_phlox_theme to version 2.15.8 or later.
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| averta | shortcodes_and_extra_features_for_phlox_theme |
< 2.15.8 cpe:2.3:a:averta:shortcodes_and_extra_features_for_phlox_theme:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
Original advisory text
The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘title_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.7 due to...
The Shortcodes and extra features for Phlox theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘title_tag’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.15.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
References
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old...
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/tags/2.15.5/includes/e... Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/tags/2.15.5/includes/e... Product
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/auxin-elements/tags/2.15.5/includes/e... Product
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/546aee7b-60a6-44bc-866... Patch Third Party Advisory
Internet-facing
60 days
Internal
At next upgrade
- Not known to be exploited
- Needs hands-on effort to exploit
- Gives an attacker partial control
Type
CWE-79Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Timeline
Published2 May 2024
Updated4 Nov 2026
First seen29 Sep 2026
Sources
CVE-2024-1396 · NVD
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