CVE-2024-9872
Published: 06 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-9872 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Vcita Online Booking \& Scheduling Calendar. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-50406
Vulnerability details
The Online Booking & Scheduling Calendar for WordPress by vcita plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the vcita_save_user_data_callback() function in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.1. This makes…
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it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject malicious web scripts and update settings.
- 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.