CVE-2024-2949

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2024-2949 · Published 06/04/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-2949 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting wp carousel (shapedplugin).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 27.9% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.6.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
wp carousel shapedplugin	`< 2.6.4`	`2.6.4`

Description

The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the carousel widget in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.3 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.

References

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset · Patch
wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9349208c-3e86-4ec6-9e10-5ecaa4923922 · Third Party Advisory

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