CVE-2024-6704 (GCVE-0-2024-6704)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-02 10:59
Modified
2026-04-08 17:34
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Summary
The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
advancedcoding Comments – wpDiscuz Version: 0    7.6.21
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