Medium severity6.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 23, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-11199
CVE-2024-11199
Description
The Rescue Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's rescue_progressbar shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.
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Affected products
3<=2.9+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=2.9
- (no CPE)range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3193428/nvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a188c615-513b-4d65-8351-d70848696297nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rescue-shortcodes/tags/2.9/includes/shortcode-functions.phpnvdProduct
- wordpress.org/plugins/rescue-shortcodes/nvdRelease Notes
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