What is CVE-2024-12598?

CVE-2024-12598 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zookatron Mybookprogress By Stormhill Media, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-17.

How severe is CVE-2024-12598?

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

Is CVE-2024-12598 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Zookatron Mybookprogress By Stormhill Media

CVE-2024-12598

The MyBookProgress by Stormhill Media plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘book’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.8 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: 0.003 (25.8th 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

Zookatron Mybookprogress By Stormhill Media — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12598?: CVE-2024-12598 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zookatron Mybookprogress By Stormhill Media, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-17.
How severe is CVE-2024-12598?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-12598 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.