CVE-2024-56036
Published: 02 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-56036 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 JavaScript (T1059.007); 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
Filters web page outputs to neutralize malicious scripts reflected from unsanitized user input, directly preventing XSS execution in the victim's browser.
Validates and sanitizes user inputs such as malicious URLs before processing, blocking injection of XSS payloads into the odPhotogallery plugin.
Requires identification, reporting, and patching of flaws like the reflected XSS in od-photogallery-plugin versions up to 0.5.3.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS directly enables arbitrary JavaScript execution in the browser (T1059.007) and facilitates session hijacking via stolen cookies or tokens (T1185).
NVD Description
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Ondrej Donek odPhotogallery od-photogallery-plugin allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects odPhotogallery: from n/a through <= 0.5.3.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-56036 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, classified under CWE-79 for improper neutralization of input during web page generation. It affects the odPhotogallery WordPress plugin (od-photogallery-plugin) developed by Ondrej Donek, impacting all versions up to and including 0.5.3. The vulnerability enables attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by users, with 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), rated as High severity.
The attack requires network access and low complexity, with no privileges needed but user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. An attacker can craft a URL containing a malicious payload that reflects unsanitized user input back into the page, executing arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser context. This leads to low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but the changed scope (S:C) allows potential effects beyond the vulnerable component, such as session hijacking or phishing within the WordPress site's user base.
Patchstack has documented the vulnerability in its database, providing details on the affected WordPress plugin version 0.5.3 at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/od-photogallery-plugin/vulnerability/wordpress-odphotogallery-plugin-0-5-3-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve. Security practitioners should update to a patched version if available or apply input sanitization workarounds, while monitoring for plugin updates.
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