Comments – wpDiscuz <= 7.6.21 - Unauthenticated HTML Injection

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-6704
CVSS Medium (5.3)
Publicly Published August 1, 2024
Last Updated August 2, 2024
Researcher Tieu Pham Trong Nhan
Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wpdiscuz (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 7.6.21
Patched Version
  • 7.6.22
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