CVE-2024-1658: Grid Shortcodes < 1.1.1 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The Grid Shortcodes WordPress plugin before 1.1.1 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-1658

Problem Types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: Grid Shortcodes

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.16% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 38.29% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1658
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9489925e-5a47-4608-90a2-0139c5e1c43c/

Timeline