What is CVE-2024-3939?

CVE-2024-3939 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphorcreations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-05-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-3939?

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

XSS in Metaphorcreations Ditty

CVE-2024-3939

The Ditty WordPress plugin before 3.1.36 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)

Published 2024-05-27 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (31.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Metaphorcreations Ditty
Ditty — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/80a9eb3a-2cb1-4844-9004-ba2554b2d46c/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-3939?: CVE-2024-3939 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphorcreations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-05-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-3939?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.