NitroPack <= 1.16.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CVE CVE-2024-43922
CVSS High (7.3)
Publicly Published August 26, 2024
Last Updated September 4, 2024
Researcher Rafie Muhammad
Description

The The NitroPack – Caching & Speed Optimization for Core Web Vitals, Defer CSS & JS, Lazy load Images and CDN plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 1.16.7. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug nitropack (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.16.7
Patched Version
  • 1.16.8
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