CVE-2024-6165 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The WANotifier WordPress plugin before 2.6.1 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)

Published: 2024-07-31

Score: 4.8 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

WANotifier

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.6.1

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wanotifier:wanotifier:*:*:*:*:*: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 None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00204.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b9e6648a-9d19-4e73-ad6c-f727802d8dd5/

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00019}`	epss `{'score': 0.00021}`

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:30:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Wanotifier Wanotifier

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-07-31T06:00:02.242Z

Updated: 2024-07-31T13:58:59.116Z

Reserved: 2024-06-19T14:56:08.104Z

Link: CVE-2024-6165

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-07-31T13:58:53.966Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-31T06:15:03.373

Modified: 2025-07-07T16:08:08.900

Link: CVE-2024-6165

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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