SB2025032141 - Stored cross-site scripting in Dominion – Domain Checker for WPBakery plugin for WordPress

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-12520)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "dominion_shortcodes_domain_search_6" shortcode. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/dominion-domain-checker-wpbakery-addon/trunk/modules/domain_search/domain_search_6/doamin_search_shortcodes.php#L91
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/dominion-domain-checker-wpbakery-addon
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a684f597-da72-4697-9e37-ca45a30ca64d?source=cve