The Postie WordPress plugin before 1.9.71 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).
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-55026 The Postie WordPress plugin before 1.9.71 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).
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress

Mon, 29 Sep 2025 20:15:00 +0000

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:15:00 +0000

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Description The Postie WordPress plugin before 1.9.71 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).
Title Postie < 1.9.71 - Admin+ Stored XSS
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-13T20:55:45.847Z

Reserved: 2024-05-22T13:44:22.851Z

Link: CVE-2024-5200

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-29T19:42:17.350Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-29T06:15:34.543

Modified: 2025-11-13T21:15:48.233

Link: CVE-2024-5200

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-09-30T08:48:35Z