WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2024-6691 Analyzed

Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy): Cross-site scripting

Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy) is affected by cross-site scripting. Exploitation requires at least administrator-level access. Injected script can execute in the affected site's origin when the vulnerable output is viewed.

CVE / CNA score 4.4 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score 4.0 CVSS 3.1 · nvd@nist.gov
Component
Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy)
Plugin slug
easy-digital-downloads
Affected
See vendor advisory
Safe version
See mitigation notes
Published
Aug 12, 2024
Weakness
CWE-79 — Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

This CVE was published Aug 12, 2024 and is one of 66 known issues for this plugin.

Patch or disable the affected component.

Update Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy) to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

Technical description

The Easy Digital Downloads – Sell Digital Files & Subscriptions (eCommerce Store + Payments Made Easy) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the currency value in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Primary and upstream sources