What is CVE-2024-11849?

CVE-2024-11849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Podsfoundation Pods, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-06.

How severe is CVE-2024-11849?

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

Is CVE-2024-11849 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Podsfoundation Pods

CVE-2024-11849

The Pods WordPress plugin before 3.2.8.1 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 di…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.2th 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

Podsfoundation Pods
Unknown Pods — 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-2024-11849?: CVE-2024-11849 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Podsfoundation Pods, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-06.
How severe is CVE-2024-11849?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-11849 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.