What is CVE-2024-12682?

CVE-2024-12682 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brijeshk89 Smart Maintenance Mode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-12682?

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

XSS in Brijeshk89 Smart Maintenance Mode

CVE-2024-12682

The Smart Maintenance Mode WordPress plugin before 1.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (17.4th 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

Brijeshk89 Smart_maintenance_mode
Unknown Smart Maintenance Mode — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-12682?: CVE-2024-12682 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Brijeshk89 Smart Maintenance Mode, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2025-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-12682?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.