What is CVE-2024-9445?

CVE-2024-9445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acekyd Display Medium Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2024-9445?

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

Is CVE-2024-9445 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Acekyd Display Medium Posts

CVE-2024-9445

The Display Medium Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's display_medium_posts shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (22.3th 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

Acekyd Display Medium Posts — versions 0
Acekyd Display_medium_posts

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

security@wordfence.com (Third Party Advisory)
security@wordfence.com (Product)
security@wordfence.com (Product)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9445?: CVE-2024-9445 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acekyd Display Medium Posts, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2024-9445?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-9445 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.