CVE-2024-4957 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Frontend Checklist WordPress plugin through 2.3.2 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 Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00118.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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

Frontend Checklist

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	≤ 2.3.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:j-breuer:frontend_checklist:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
J-breuer Subscribe	Frontend Checklist Subscribe

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/0a560ed4-7dec-4274-b4a4-39dea0c0d67e/

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		J-breuer J-breuer frontend Checklist
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:j-breuer:frontend_checklist::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		J-breuer J-breuer frontend Checklist

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-26T06:00:03.703Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.298Z

Reserved: 2024-05-15T18:13:05.452Z

Link: CVE-2024-4957

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.298Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-26T06:15:16.237

Modified: 2025-04-30T23:32:40.880

Link: CVE-2024-4957

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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