Description

The The WordPress Popular Posts plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 7.1.0. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-11733

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.3

Affected Products

Vendor: hcabrera

Product: WordPress Popular Posts

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 19.34% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c38ac8d6-c6de-4be7-bf7b-198e085a0ad2?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wordpress-popular-posts/tags/7.1.0/src/Rest/ViewLoggerEndpoint.php#L70

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