CVE-2024-11388
Published: 21 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-11388 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Tahmid-Ul Dino Game. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 5.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Dino Game – Embed Google Chrome Dinosaur Game in WordPress plugin is affected by a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability (CWE-79) in all versions through 1.1.0. The flaw resides in the plugin's dino-game shortcode handler, which fails to adequately sanitize and escape user-supplied attributes before storing and rendering them on the page.
Authenticated attackers holding contributor-level privileges or higher can supply malicious attributes to the shortcode, resulting in arbitrary JavaScript being persisted in post or page content. When any visitor subsequently loads an affected page the injected script executes in the context of that visitor's session, enabling theft of cookies, session hijacking, or other client-side actions under the site's origin.
A patched version addressing the input handling issue is available via the referenced WordPress plugin changeset. The associated Wordfence advisory provides additional technical details on the vulnerability and its scope.
EPSS for this CVE has remained flat at 0.1573 with no material increase observed after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-33790
Vulnerability details
The Dino Game – Embed Google Chrome Dinosaur Game in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'dino-game' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output…
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escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- 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.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.