CVE-2024-5439 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Blocksy theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the custom_url parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.50 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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 None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00408.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Creativethemes	Blocksy

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:creativethemes:blocksy:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2024-46661	The Blocksy theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the custom_url parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.50 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=229705%40blocksy%2F2.0.51&old=228990%40blocksy%2F2.0.50
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c05687f4-5ea2-4226-982f-c3499f204685?source=cve

History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00249}`	epss `{'score': 0.00402}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-06-05T07:34:56.901Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:11:12.743Z

Reserved: 2024-05-28T17:24:34.310Z

Link: CVE-2024-5439

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-06-05T13:38:20.244Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-05T08:15:10.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:47:41.280

Link: CVE-2024-5439

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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