CVE-2024-1840 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the WPBakery Page Builder plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 7.5. This flaw stems from insufficient input sanitization, allowing authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages. The vulnerability has a medium severity CVSS score of 5.4, indicating that an attacker could exploit it remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction to trigger the script execution, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 7.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wpbakery:page_builder:*:*:*:*:*: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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