What is CVE-2024-10623?

CVE-2024-10623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Enginethemes Forumengine, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-11-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-10623?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Enginethemes Forumengine

CVE-2024-10623

The ForumEngine theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via a URL in all versions up to, and including, 1.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (36.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Enginethemes Forumengine — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-10623?: CVE-2024-10623 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Enginethemes Forumengine, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-11-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-10623?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.