What is CVE-2024-12278?

CVE-2024-12278 is a high-severity vulnerability in Booster For Woocommerce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2025-04-01.

How severe is CVE-2024-12278?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.

XSS in Booster For Woocommerce

CVE-2024-12278

The Booster for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via any location that typically sanitizes data using wp_kses, like comments, in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12278?: CVE-2024-12278 is a high-severity vulnerability in Booster For Woocommerce, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 7.2/10. Published 2025-04-01.
How severe is CVE-2024-12278?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.2 out of 10.