CVE-2024-11411: Spotlightr <= 0.1.11 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Spotlightr plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'spotlightr-v' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

Affected products

socratous139 Spotlightr: through 0.1.11

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/spotlightr/trunk/spotlightr.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3231975/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/spotlightr/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/475f2758-27a5-4a36-8085-576ee341938b?source=cve

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