What is CVE-2024-5575?

CVE-2024-5575 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphorcreations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-07-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-5575?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-5575 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Metaphorcreations Ditty

CVE-2024-5575

The Ditty WordPress plugin before 3.1.43 does not sanitise and escape some of its blocks' settings, which could allow high privilege users such as authors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-07-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (35.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 35.3% 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

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/65d1abb7-92e9-4cc4-a1d0-84985b484af3/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-5575?: CVE-2024-5575 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Metaphorcreations Ditty, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2024-07-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-5575?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-5575 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.