CVE-2024-2402 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00125.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Utopique	Better Comments

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:utopique:better_comments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/98e050cf-5686-4216-bad1-575decf3eaa7/

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00091}`	epss `{'score': 0.00092}`

Thu, 08 May 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Utopique Utopique better Comments
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:utopique:better_comments::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Utopique Utopique better Comments

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-24T05:00:02.534Z

Updated: 2024-10-29T16:12:12.668Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T12:32:09.387Z

Link: CVE-2024-2402

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.525Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-04-24T05:15:47.070

Modified: 2025-05-08T19:11:11.243

Link: CVE-2024-2402

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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