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CVE-2020-36704: Fruitful < 3.8.2 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Fruitful Theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via several parameters stored via the fruitful_theme_options_action AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 3.8.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level permissions and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• fruitfulcode Fruitful: through 3.8.1

References

• https://blog.nintechnet.com/authenticated-stored-xss-vulnerability-in-wordpress-fruitful-theme/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/49cf047f-4e8c-4f37-b8c0-d931c02fda7c?source=cve
• https://blog.nintechnet.com/authenticated-stored-xss-vulnerability-in-wordpress-fruitful-theme/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/49cf047f-4e8c-4f37-b8c0-d931c02fda7c?source=cve

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