CVE-2024-10080: WP Easy Post Types <= 1.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: 2024-10-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Easy Post Types plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post meta in versions up to, and including, 1.4.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

chertz WP Easy Post Types: through 1.4.4

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-post-types/tags/1.4.4/custom-type.php#L1622
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1bee1eeb-5354-47c9-9ae1-b1608d87d7bb?source=cve

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