What is CVE-2024-6272?

CVE-2024-6272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 10web Spidercontacts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2024-6272?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-6272 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in 10web Spidercontacts

CVE-2024-6272

The SpiderContacts WordPress plugin through 1.1.7 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (25.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 26th percentile — 25.5% 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

10web Spidercontacts
Spidercontacts — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/146b94df-7fc6-4da3-9ef1-d2875ae3fa9e/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6272?: CVE-2024-6272 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 10web Spidercontacts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2024-6272?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6272 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.