This vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become exploited.
This could allow a malicious actor to inject malicious scripts, such as redirects, advertisements, and other HTML payloads into your website which will be executed when guests visit your site.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until you have updated to a fixed version.
Update to version 1.9.2 or later to remove the vulnerability.
28 Mar, 2024
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
28 Mar, 2024
Published by Patchstack
28 Mar, 2024