What is CVE-2024-1956?

CVE-2024-1956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpb Show Core Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-1956?

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

Is CVE-2024-1956 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Wpb Show Core Project

CVE-2024-1956

The wpb-show-core WordPress plugin before 2.7 does not sanitise and escape the parameters before outputting it back in the response of an unauthenticated request, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-04-08 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (40.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 41st percentile — 40.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wpb Show Core Project
Wpb-Show-Core — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/d7034ac2-0098-48d2-9ba9-87e09b178f7d/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1956?: CVE-2024-1956 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpb Show Core Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-1956?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1956 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.