CVE-2024-4755 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Google CSE WordPress plugin through 1.0.7 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 High

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 0.00085.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Erikeng	Google Cse

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:erikeng:google_cse:*:*:*:*:*: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/adc6ea6d-29d8-4ad0-b0db-2540e8b3f9a9/

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.0006}`	epss `{'score': 0.00095}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-21T06:00:05.395Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:47:41.777Z

Reserved: 2024-05-10T13:43:25.756Z

Link: CVE-2024-4755

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:47:41.777Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-21T06:15:12.507

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:43:31.903

Link: CVE-2024-4755

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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