Vulnerability · Published Aug 26, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-24316

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.9%top 41.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

WP Plugin Rednumber Admin Menu v1.1 and lower does not sanitize the value of the "role" GET parameter before echoing it back out to the user. This results in a reflected XSS vulnerability that attackers can exploit with a specially crafted URL.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://zeroaptitude.com/zerodetail/wordpress-plugin-bug-hunting-part-1/ x_refsource_MISC
https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-menu/ x_refsource_MISC