What is CVE-2024-1692?

CVE-2024-1692 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Boldgrid Easy Seo – Simple And Effective, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-03-30.

How severe is CVE-2024-1692?

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

Is CVE-2024-1692 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Boldgrid Easy Seo – Simple And Effective

CVE-2024-1692

The BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the meta description field in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions 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 (26.1th 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

Boldgrid Easy Seo – Simple And Effective — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1692?: CVE-2024-1692 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Boldgrid Easy Seo – Simple And Effective, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-03-30.
How severe is CVE-2024-1692?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1692 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.