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WordPress Plugin: off-canvas-sidebars: CVE-2024-29762: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 25, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 5, 2026

Description

The Off-Canvas Sidebars and Menus (Slidebars) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 0.5.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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.

Solution

off-canvas-sidebars-plugin-cve-2024-29762
Title
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