What is CVE-2024-8054?

CVE-2024-8054 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mm-Breaking News Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-8054?

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

Is CVE-2024-8054 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Mm-Breaking News Project

CVE-2024-8054

The MM-Breaking News WordPress plugin through 0.7.9 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2024-09-12 · 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: 0.002 (10.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 10th percentile — 10.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mm-Breaking News Project
Mm-Breaking News — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/f27deffc-9555-44bf-8dee-1891c210ecfd/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8054?: CVE-2024-8054 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mm-Breaking News Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2024-09-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-8054?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8054 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.