What is CVE-2024-5177?

CVE-2024-5177 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashthemes Hash Elements, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-23.

How severe is CVE-2024-5177?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Hashthemes Hash Elements

CVE-2024-5177

The Hash Elements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'url' parameter within multiple widgets in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (23.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Hashthemes Hash Elements — versions 0
Hashthemes Hash_elements

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5177?: CVE-2024-5177 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashthemes Hash Elements, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-05-23.
How severe is CVE-2024-5177?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.