Better Comments <= 1.5.5 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

4.4
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-2402
CVSS 4.4 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 3, 2024
Last Updated May 1, 2024
Researcher Nicolo

Description

The Better Comments plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 1.5.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Wordfence blocked 20,642,590 attacks targeting this vulnerability in the past 24 hours.

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Vulnerability Details for Better Comments

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug better-comments (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.5.6, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 1.5.5
Patched Version
  • 1.5.6

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