Description

The WP QuickLaTeX WordPress plugin before 3.8.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-5529

Affected Products

Vendor: Unknown

Product: WP QuickLaTeX

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.36% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-16 (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-2024-5529
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/66d0b4b7-cd4b-4ec4-95c0-d50773cb0b8f/

Timeline