WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Post Layouts for Gutenberg < 1.2.11 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affects Plugins

Plugin icon
post-layouts
Fixed in 1.2.11

References

CVE
CVE-2024-38682
URL
https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/post-layouts/vulnerability/wordpress-post-layouts-for-gutenberg-plugin-1-2-7-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

Classification

Type
XSS
OWASP top 10
A7: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
CWE
CWE-79
CVSS
5.9 (medium)

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
SouzaZinn
Verified
No
WPVDB ID
035a1bbc-94c3-47a2-bc80-31f738c6d03d

Timeline

Publicly Published
2024-07-10 (about 2 years ago)
Added
2024-07-18 (about 2 years ago)
Last Updated
2026-07-10 (about 1 month ago)

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