CVE-2024-6487 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Inline Related Posts WordPress plugin before 3.8.0 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 Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00151.

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

Inline Related Posts

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 3.8.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:data443:inline_related_posts:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Project Subscriptions

Vendors	Products
Data443 Subscribe	Inline Related 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/eeec9608-a7b2-4926-bac2-4c81a65dd473/

History

Fri, 30 May 2025 21:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Data443 Data443 inline Related Posts
Weaknesses		CWE-79
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:data443:inline_related_posts::::::wordpress::*
Vendors & Products		Data443 Data443 inline Related Posts

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2024-07-29T06:00:08.552Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T20:43:59.315Z

Reserved: 2024-07-03T17:44:49.752Z

Link: CVE-2024-6487

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T21:41:03.293Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-07-29T06:15:02.873

Modified: 2025-05-30T16:55:49.913

Link: CVE-2024-6487

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-79

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