CVE-2024-1401 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-1401

Profile Box Shortcode And Widget < 1.2.1 Admin+ Stored XSS

Vulnerability Description

The Profile Box Shortcode And Widget WordPress plugin before 1.2.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Dmitrii Ignatyev
  • WPScan

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Profile Box Shortcode And Widget
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 19th, 2024
Last Modified: March 27th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.