CVE-2024-8317
WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Ads <= 2.5.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ad_alignment Attribute
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.4 Medium
- Published
- Sep 6, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 29, 2024
Description
The WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘ad_alignment’ attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Adswpeka-club |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ac7f95c7-2159-4327-ba09-da7721f1312e?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L2922
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpadcenter/#developers
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L3020
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L3127
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3146736/#file6
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3146736/
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