CVE-2024-5529 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WP QuickLaTeX WordPress plugin before 3.8.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Published: 2024-07-22

Score: 4.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

WP QuickLaTeX

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.8.8

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:holoborodko:wp_quicklatex:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00223.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/66d0b4b7-cd4b-4ec4-95c0-d50773cb0b8f/

History

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Pavel Holoborodko Pavel Holoborodko wp Quicklatex
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:pavel_holoborodko:wp_quicklatex::::::::
Vendors & Products		Pavel Holoborodko Pavel Holoborodko wp Quicklatex
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Holoborodko Wp Quicklatex

Pavel Holoborodko Wp Quicklatex

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-07-22T06:00:04.206Z

Updated: 2025-03-18T13:25:31.486Z

Reserved: 2024-05-30T12:13:17.622Z

Link: CVE-2024-5529

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:18:06.542Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-07-22T06:15:02.520

Modified: 2025-03-18T14:15:41.210

Link: CVE-2024-5529

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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