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)

Published 2024-05-23 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (22.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 22.0% 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

Hashthemes Hash Elements — versions 0
Hashthemes Hash Elements

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9ba07137-f834-4f56-bcd5-0f6fd… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hash-elements/trunk/modules/news-module-one/… (Product)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset (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.