CVE-2024-56029
Published: 02 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-56029 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 34.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates reflected XSS by filtering web page outputs to neutralize untrusted input, preventing script execution in the victim's browser.
Validates information inputs to the WordPress plugin, rejecting or sanitizing malicious payloads that could be reflected as executable scripts.
Remediates the improper input neutralization flaw in Easy Language Switcher versions <=1.0 through timely identification, reporting, and patching.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables T1190 exploitation and T1566.002 malicious link delivery; cookie theft impact maps to T1539 session cookie theft.
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in dreamwinner Easy Language Switcher easy-language-switcher allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Easy Language Switcher: from n/a through <= 1.0.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-56029 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the dreamwinner Easy Language Switcher WordPress plugin (easy-language-switcher). This issue affects all versions from n/a through 1.0 inclusive. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating high severity due to its network accessibility and scope change.
Attackers can exploit this reflected XSS over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges but user interaction, such as clicking a malicious link. Exploitation reflects unsanitized input into the web page, allowing script execution in the victim's browser context with changed scope. This enables limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, such as session hijacking via cookie theft or minor site defacement.
The Patchstack advisory (https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/easy-language-switcher/vulnerability/wordpress-easy-language-switcher-plugin-1-0-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve) documents the vulnerability in the WordPress Easy Language Switcher plugin version 1.0.
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