What is CVE-2024-13340?

CVE-2024-13340 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pluginus Meta Data And Taxonomies Filter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-23.

How severe is CVE-2024-13340?

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

XSS in Pluginus Meta Data And Taxonomies Filter

CVE-2024-13340

The MDTF – Meta Data and Taxonomies Filter plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'mdf_results_by_ajax' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.3.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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 (22.6th 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

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-13340?: CVE-2024-13340 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pluginus Meta Data And Taxonomies Filter, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2025-01-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-13340?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.