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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2024-13661
CVE-2024-13661:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
The Table Editor plugin for WordPress (versions up to and including 1.5.1) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-13661) discovered in January 2025. The vulnerability exists in the plugin's 'wptableeditor_vtabs' shortcode due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.4 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and requires authenticated access with contributor-level privileges or higher (NVD, Wordfence).
Impact
When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Users should upgrade to version 1.6.0 or later of the Table Editor plugin to address this vulnerability (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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