What is CVE-2024-0974?

CVE-2024-0974 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bmwebproperties Social_media_widget, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-07-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-0974?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-0974 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Bmwebproperties Social_media_widget

CVE-2024-0974

The Social Media Widget WordPress plugin before 4.0.9 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 capa…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (24.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Bmwebproperties Social_media_widget
Unknown Social Media Widget — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-0974?: CVE-2024-0974 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bmwebproperties Social_media_widget, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-07-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-0974?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-0974 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.