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CVE-2024-11605: WP Publications <= 1.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The wp-publications WordPress plugin through 1.2 does not escape filenames before outputting them back in the page, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Affected products

• wp-publications: through 1.2

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/91c5ee70-2ff5-46cd-a0f5-54987fc2e060/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/91c5ee70-2ff5-46cd-a0f5-54987fc2e060/

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