What is CVE-2024-4899?

CVE-2024-4899 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Seopress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-06-24.

How severe is CVE-2024-4899?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-4899 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Seopress

CVE-2024-4899

The SEOPress WordPress plugin before 7.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its Post settings, which could allow high privilege users such as contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-06-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (24.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.6% 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

Seopress
Seopress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/15346ae9-9a29-4968-a6a9-81d1116ac448/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-4899?: CVE-2024-4899 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Seopress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2024-06-24.
How severe is CVE-2024-4899?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-4899 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.