CVE-2024-12451 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the HTML5 Chat plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 1.04. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts through the 'HTML5CHAT' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), indicating that successful exploitation could lead to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity when a user accesses an affected page. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:proxymis:html5_chat:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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