WP SVG Images <= 4.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-5945
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published June 20, 2024
Last Updated January 31, 2025
Researcher Colin Xu, Ryan Zegar
Description

The WP SVG Images plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘type’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.3 due to insufficient input sanitization. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, who have permissions to upload sanitized files, to bypass SVG sanitization and inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. A bypass to the patch in version 4.3 was discovered and fixed completely in version 4.4.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-svg-images (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.3
Patched Version
  • 4.4
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