CVE-2024-5002 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The User Submitted Posts WordPress plugin before 20240516 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)

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 0.00091.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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

User Submitted Posts

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 20240516

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:user_submitted_posts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Plugin-planet Subscribe	User Submitted Posts Subscribe

Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/da09b99a-fa40-428f-80b4-0af764fd2f4f/

History

Tue, 13 May 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Plugin-planet Plugin-planet user Submitted Posts
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:plugin-planet:user_submitted_posts::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Plugin-planet Plugin-planet user Submitted Posts

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-07-13T06:00:07.139Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.411Z

Reserved: 2024-05-16T13:01:28.902Z

Link: CVE-2024-5002

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:55:10.411Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-13T06:15:03.500

Modified: 2025-05-13T16:44:34.587

Link: CVE-2024-5002

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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