CVE-2024-4959 - 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 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 0.0015.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
J-breuer	Frontend Checklist
Jonas Breuer	Frontend Checklist

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:j-breuer:frontend_checklist:*:*:*:*:*: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/449e4da8-beae-4ff6-9ddc-0e17781c0391/

History

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:45:00 +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

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-26T06:00:03.926Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.320Z

Reserved: 2024-05-15T18:31:58.835Z

Link: CVE-2024-4959

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-26T13:31:16.754Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-26T06:15:16.347

Modified: 2025-04-30T23:27:28.083

Link: CVE-2024-4959

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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