CVE-2024-10958
Published: 10 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-10958 is a high-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Wppa Wp Photo Album Plus. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 1.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions through 8.8.08.007. The flaw lies in the getshortcodedrenderedfenodelay AJAX handler, which invokes do_shortcode on an attacker-supplied value without adequate validation, corresponding to CWE-94. The issue received a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.3.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can invoke the affected AJAX action to execute arbitrary shortcodes. Successful exploitation yields limited read, write, and availability impacts on the WordPress site without requiring user interaction or authentication.
Public references show that the plugin maintainers addressed the issue in changeset 3184852, with updated versions available through the WordPress plugin repository and detailed in the Wordfence advisory. The associated EPSS scores reached a peak of 0.6154 with a current value of 0.5566.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-33365
Vulnerability details
The The WP Photo Album Plus plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via getshortcodedrenderedfenodelay AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 8.8.08.007 . This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action…
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that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Makes persistent code injection into loaded programs impossible when the executable image itself resides on hardware-protected read-only media.
Dynamically generated code can be produced and executed inside the isolated chamber, preventing host compromise from code-injection payloads.
Validates inputs used in dynamic code generation to block injected directives.
Directly prevents execution of attacker-supplied code written into data memory regions.