CVE-2024-0966 — The Shariff Wrapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scri

The Shariff Wrapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'shariff' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes like '

01What is this vulnerability?

The Shariff Wrapper plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'shariff' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.6.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes like 'info_text'. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts…

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2024-03-21T02:51:29.777
• Last modified: 2026-04-08T18:19:01.323

09References

• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shariff/trunk/services/shariff-info.p…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8588f9e8-441c-4b9e-bd7…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/shariff/trunk/services/shariff-info.p…
• plugins.trac.wordpress.org — https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old…
• www.wordfence.com — https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8588f9e8-441c-4b9e-bd7…