What is CVE-2024-9521?

CVE-2024-9521 is a medium-severity vulnerability in India-Web-Developer Seo Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-9521?

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

Is CVE-2024-9521 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in India-Web-Developer Seo Manager

CVE-2024-9521

The SEO Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post meta in versions up to, and including, 1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions 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 (20.9th 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

India-web-developer Seo Manager — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-9521?: CVE-2024-9521 is a medium-severity vulnerability in India-Web-Developer Seo Manager, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.4/10. Published 2024-10-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-9521?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.4 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-9521 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.