What is CVE-2024-12043?

CVE-2024-12043 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bdthemes Prime Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-23.

How severe is CVE-2024-12043?

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

XSS in Bdthemes Prime Slider

CVE-2024-12043

The Prime Slider – Addons For Elementor (Revolution of a slider, Hero Slider, Post Slider and Ecommerce Slider) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'social_link_title' parameter of the 'blog' widget in all versions up to, and including, 3.16.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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: 0.002 (12.6th 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

Bdthemes Prime_slider
Bdthemes Prime Slider – Addons For Elementor — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12043?: CVE-2024-12043 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bdthemes Prime Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-12043?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.