What is CVE-2024-8056?

CVE-2024-8056 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-2024-8056?

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

Is CVE-2024-8056 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-2024-8056

The MM-Breaking News WordPress plugin through 0.7.9 does not escape the $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] parameter before outputting it back in an attribute, which could lead to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in old web browsers

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: 0.003 (23.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-05.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 23.4% 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

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/203b8122-f1e5-4e9e-ba83-f5cd59d8a289/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8056?: CVE-2024-8056 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-2024-8056?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-8056 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.