CVE-2024-2640 (GCVE-0-2024-2640)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-12 06:00
Modified
2024-08-01 19:18
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CWE
Summary
The Watu Quiz WordPress plugin before 3.4.1.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow users such as authors (if they've been authorized by admins) to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Watu Quiz Version: 0   ≤
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