What is CVE-2024-9230?

CVE-2024-9230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Blubrry Powerpress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-04-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-9230?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

XSS in Blubrry Powerpress

CVE-2024-9230

The PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry WordPress plugin before 11.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings when adding a podcast, which could allow author and above users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2025-04-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (16.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 16th percentile — 16.2% 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

Blubrry Powerpress
Powerpress Podcasting Plugin By Blubrry — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

wpscan.com/vulnerability/ab5eaf57-fb61-4a08-b439-42dea40b7914/ (Exploit, technical-description, Third Party Advisory, exploit, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9230?: CVE-2024-9230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Blubrry Powerpress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2025-04-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-9230?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.