Product Slider For WoocommerceWordPress extension · Pickplugins
CVE-2024-45459
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in PickPlugins Product Slider for WooCommerce woocommerce-products-slider allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Product Slider for WooCommerce: from n/a through <= 1.13.50.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceReflected XSS vulnerability in the PickPlugins Product Slider for WooCommerce plugin allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript through unsanitized user input that gets reflected back in web page content without proper encoding.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Product Slider For WoocommerceWordPress extension
< 1.13.51CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify plugin is installedNavigate to WordPress admin > Plugins and locate 'Pickplugins Product Slider for WooCommerce' in the list of installed pluginsAffected if The plugin appears in the installed plugins list
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Check installed versionIn the Plugins list, click on the plugin or view its details to see the version number displayedAffected if The version number shown is lower than 1.13.51 (e.g., 1.13.50, 1.13.4, etc.)
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Confirm plugin is activeIn WordPress admin > Plugins, verify the plugin status shows as 'Active'Affected if The plugin is currently active and accessible to visitors
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Identify vulnerable endpoint exposureReview your site's public pages that use the product slider shortcode [product_slider] and test whether URL parameters (such as id, slider_id, or similar) are reflected in the page output without sanitizationAffected if URL parameter values appear rendered directly in HTML on the resulting page without encoding
If the Pickplugins Product Slider for WooCommerce plugin is installed, active, and running at a version below 1.13.51, the site is vulnerable to reflected XSS via unsanitized user input in slider-related parameters.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
dbcve · scoped1.13.51
Update to a patched version of the plugin once released; until then, implement WAF rules or disable the plugin if possible, and avoid clicking untrusted links to the affected site.
1.13.51
- Update the Product Slider for WooCommerce plugin to version 1.13.51 or later through WordPress admin dashboard > Plugins > Updates, or via WP-CLI using: wp plugin update woocommerce-products-slider
Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.
Fix this in Product Slider For Woocommerce
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation4.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-45459 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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