XSS in Bracketspace Advanced Cron Manager
CVE-2024-4004
The Advanced Cron Manager WordPress plugin before 2.5.7 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 · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 3.5 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (21.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 21.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Bracketspace Advanced Cron Manager
- Advanced Cron Manager — versions 0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/8e5e7040-b824-4af7-90a1-90801d12abb6/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2024-4004?
- CVE-2024-4004 is a low-severity vulnerability in Bracketspace Advanced Cron Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 3.5/10. Published 2025-05-15.
- How severe is CVE-2024-4004?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2024-4004 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.