What is CVE-2024-12769?

CVE-2024-12769 is a low-severity vulnerability in Simple Banner Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2025-03-25.

How severe is CVE-2024-12769?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.

XSS in Simple Banner Project

CVE-2024-12769

The Simple Banner WordPress plugin before 3.0.4 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: 0.002 (16.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Simple_banner_project Simple_banner
Unknown Simple Banner — 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-2024-12769?: CVE-2024-12769 is a low-severity vulnerability in Simple Banner Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2025-03-25.
How severe is CVE-2024-12769?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.