CVE-2024-5573 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Easy Table of Contents WordPress plugin before 2.0.66 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Published: 2024-06-26

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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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

Easy Table of Contents

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.0.66

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:magazine3:easy_table_of_contents:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

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.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3b01044b-355f-40d3-8e11-23a890f98c76/

History

Mon, 19 May 2025 21:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:magazine3:easy_table_of_contents::::::wordpress::*

Subscriptions

Magazine3 Easy Table Of Contents

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-06-26T06:00:05.425Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:18:06.816Z

Reserved: 2024-05-31T18:52:49.486Z

Link: CVE-2024-5573

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-31T20:43:29.634Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-26T06:15:17.300

Modified: 2025-05-19T21:03:01.860

Link: CVE-2024-5573

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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