CVE-2024-2967
Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor <= 4.4.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.4 Medium
- Published
- May 2, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 8, 2026
- Reserved
- Mar 26, 2024
Description
The Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via form settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | Wordfence |
Weaknesses
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submitaharonyan |
|
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82eb759f-e8d5-40c6-998f-f6981d9d6644?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-editor/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3098586%40front-editor%2Ftrunk&old=3097587%40front-editor%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
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