What is CVE-2024-8620?

CVE-2024-8620 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mappresspro Mappress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.

How severe is CVE-2024-8620?

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

XSS in Mappresspro Mappress

CVE-2024-8620

The MapPress Maps for WordPress plugin before 2.93 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capabil…

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (17.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Mappresspro Mappress
Unknown Mappress Maps For Wordpress — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

contact@wpscan.com (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8620?: CVE-2024-8620 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mappresspro Mappress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2025-05-15.
How severe is CVE-2024-8620?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.