CVE-2024-13898: Simple Banner <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Description
The Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings in all versions up to, and including, 3.0.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-13898
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Problem Types
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Affected Products
Vendor: rpetersen29
Product: Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 6.5% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13898https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/6a2dea28-14cf-4e83-ac72-efc7c97ecf54?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3264130%40simple-banner%2Ftrunk&old=3210193%40simple-banner%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=