What is CVE-2024-11871?

CVE-2024-11871 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tw2113 Social Media Shortcodes, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-11871?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-11871 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Tw2113 Social Media Shortcodes

CVE-2024-11871

The Social Media Shortcodes plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'patreon' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.004 (27.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Tw2113 Social Media Shortcodes — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-11871?: CVE-2024-11871 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tw2113 Social Media Shortcodes, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-11871?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-11871 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.