XSS in Akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways And Contests. Boost Subscribers, Traffic, Repeat Visits, Referrals, Sales More

CVE-2024-11898

The Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'swin-campaign' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 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)

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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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (20.1th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 20.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2024-11898: held from 0.003 to 0.003.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: +0.000

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-11898?
CVE-2024-11898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways And Contests. Boost Subscribers, Traffic, Repeat Visits, Referrals, Sales More, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-12-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-11898?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.