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CVE-2024-0657: Internal Link Juicer <= 2.23.4 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via admin settings such as 'ilj_settings_field_links_per_page' in all versions up to, and including, 2.23.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• davidanderson Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress: before 2.23.5 — fixed in 2.23.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: davidanderson Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress 2.23.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3033238%40internal-links&new=3033238%40internal-links&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/41d39fe4-b114-4612-92f6-75d6597610f7?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3033238%40internal-links&new=3033238%40internal-links&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/41d39fe4-b114-4612-92f6-75d6597610f7?source=cve

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