5.9Medium
CVE-2024-3773
The LiveJournal Shortcode WordPress plugin through 1.1.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an administrator login, but only after tricking someone into an action such as opening a file or a link.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.9 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Assigned by
- contact@wpscan.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-02
- Last modified
- 2026-09-03
- Sources
- NVD