CVE-2024-1846: Responsive Tabs < 4.0.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Description

The Responsive Tabs WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 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-2024-1846

Problem Types

CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: Responsive Tabs

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.19% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 38.1% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-11 (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-2024-1846
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ea2a8420-4b0e-4efb-a0c6-ceea996dae5a/

Timeline