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CVE-2024-2949: Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel – Image Carousel & Photo Gallery, Post Carousel & Post Grid, Product Carousel & Product Grid for WooCommerce <= 2.6.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'sp_wp_carousel_shortcode'

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-04-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

• shapedplugin Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel: before 2.6.4 — fixed in 2.6.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: shapedplugin Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel 2.6.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3065296%40wp-carousel-free&new=3065296%40wp-carousel-free&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9349208c-3e86-4ec6-9e10-5ecaa4923922?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3065296%40wp-carousel-free&new=3065296%40wp-carousel-free&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9349208c-3e86-4ec6-9e10-5ecaa4923922?source=cve

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