What is CVE-2024-12098?

CVE-2024-12098 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arsdeveloper Ars Affiliate Page Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-12098?

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

Is CVE-2024-12098 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Arsdeveloper Ars Affiliate Page Plugin

CVE-2024-12098

The ARS Affiliate Page Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the 'utm_keyword' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (27.1th 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

Arsdeveloper Ars Affiliate Page Plugin — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12098?: CVE-2024-12098 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Arsdeveloper Ars Affiliate Page Plugin, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-01-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-12098?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12098 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.