THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2024-6497
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2024-6497

Seo Plugin By Squirrly Seo vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
11.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE-2024-43286 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.
Affected vendor
Squirrly
Affected product
Seo Plugin By Squirrly Seo
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-89 — SQL Injection
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2024-07-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2024-6497

  • Confirm whether Squirrly Seo Plugin By Squirrly Seo is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2024-6497.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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