What is CVE-2024-6850?

CVE-2024-6850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Majeedraza Carousel Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-09-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-6850?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-6850 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Majeedraza Carousel Slider

CVE-2024-6850

The Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.4 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as editors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-09-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (24.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 25th percentile — 24.8% 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

Majeedraza Carousel Slider
Carousel Slider — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/c06995cb-1685-4751-811f-aead52a597a7/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6850?: CVE-2024-6850 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Majeedraza Carousel Slider, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2024-09-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-6850?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-6850 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.