What is CVE-2024-6897?

CVE-2024-6897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smub Athemes Starter Sites, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-07-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-6897?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.

XSS in Smub Athemes Starter Sites

CVE-2024-6897

The aThemes Starter Sites plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.53 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses the SVG file.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Smub Athemes Starter Sites — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6897?: CVE-2024-6897 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Smub Athemes Starter Sites, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-07-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-6897?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.