CVE-2024-9442
Published: 21 November 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-9442 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in F4Dev F4 Improvements. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 28.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50310
Vulnerability details
The F4 Improvements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with…
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Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.
- 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.