What is CVE-2024-2470?

CVE-2024-2470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Plugin-Planet Simple Ajax Chat, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-06-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-2470?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Plugin-Planet Simple Ajax Chat

CVE-2024-2470

The Simple Ajax Chat WordPress plugin before 20240412 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 (25.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Plugin-planet Simple_ajax_chat
Unknown Simple Ajax Chat — 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-2024-2470?: CVE-2024-2470 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Plugin-Planet Simple Ajax Chat, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-06-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-2470?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.