CVE-2024-1692: The BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the meta description field...
Description
The BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the meta description field in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 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.
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2024-1692
CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: boldgrid
Product: BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.09% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 26.46% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-04-22 (when was this score calculated)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)
SSVC Exploitation: none
SSVC Technical Impact: partial
SSVC Automatable: false
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1692https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a308fde-1c44-4c34-ace5-6820dc949f53?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&new=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=