What is CVE-2024-6408?

CVE-2024-6408 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 10web Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-31.

How severe is CVE-2024-6408?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-6408 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in 10web Slider

CVE-2024-6408

The Slider by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.2.57 does not sanitise and escape its Slider Title, which could allow high privilege users such as editors and above to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (30.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.7% 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

10web Slider
Slider By 10web — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/31aaeffb-a752-4941-9d0f-1b374fbc7abb/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6408?: CVE-2024-6408 is a medium-severity vulnerability in 10web Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2024-07-31.
How severe is CVE-2024-6408?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6408 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.