CVE-2024-2470 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Simple Ajax Chat WordPress plugin before 20240412 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 0.00442.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Plugin-planet Subscribe	Simple Ajax Chat Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:simple_ajax_chat:*:*:*:*:*: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/8514b8ce-ff23-4aba-b2f1-fd36beb7d2ff/

History

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:simple_ajax_chat::::::::
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00128}`	epss `{'score': 0.00177}`

Wed, 21 May 2025 19:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Plugin-planet Plugin-planet simple Ajax Chat
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:simple_ajax_chat::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Plugin-planet Plugin-planet simple Ajax Chat

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-04T06:00:02.220Z

Updated: 2026-01-09T21:31:21.626Z

Reserved: 2024-03-14T19:14:23.713Z

Link: CVE-2024-2470

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T19:11:53.531Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-04T06:15:09.937

Modified: 2026-01-09T22:15:58.783

Link: CVE-2024-2470

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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