What is CVE-2024-9442?

CVE-2024-9442 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F4dev F4 Improvements, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-11-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-9442?

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

XSS in F4dev F4 Improvements

CVE-2024-9442

The F4 Improvements plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via SVG File uploads in all versions up to, and including, 1.9.0 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: 0.004 (31.1th 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

F4dev F4_improvements
Faktorvier F4 Improvements — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9442?: CVE-2024-9442 is a medium-severity vulnerability in F4dev F4 Improvements, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-11-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-9442?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.