What is CVE-2024-11605?

CVE-2024-11605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Publications Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-12-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-11605?

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

Is CVE-2024-11605 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Wp-Publications Project

CVE-2024-11605

The wp-publications WordPress plugin through 1.2 does not escape filenames before outputting them back in the page, 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: 0.012 (65.1th 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

Wp-publications_project Wp-publications
Unknown Wp-publications — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-11605?: CVE-2024-11605 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wp-Publications Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-12-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-11605?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-11605 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.