CVE-2024-2404 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Published: 2024-04-24

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

Better Comments

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.5.6

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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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 0.00273.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a2cb7167-9edc-4640-87eb-4c511639e5b7/

History

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00258}`	epss `{'score': 0.00263}`

Subscriptions

Utopique Better Comments

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-04-24T05:00:02.735Z

Updated: 2024-08-09T18:46:43.786Z

Reserved: 2024-03-12T12:58:12.356Z

Link: CVE-2024-2404

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.446Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-04-24T05:15:47.113

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:09:40.923

Link: CVE-2024-2404

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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