What is CVE-2024-10639?

CVE-2024-10639 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Klarned Auto Prune Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-10639?

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

XSS in Klarned Auto Prune Posts

CVE-2024-10639

The Auto Prune Posts WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 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).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (18.4th 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

Klarned Auto_prune_posts
Unknown Auto Prune Posts — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-10639?: CVE-2024-10639 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Klarned Auto Prune Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-10639?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.