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CVE-2024-11898: Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: 2024-12-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'swin-campaign' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 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

• akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more 2.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook/tags/2.6.9/socialscratchwin.php#L155
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3199234%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&new=3199234%40scratch-win-giveaways-for-website-facebook&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5b7f3f0f-5f02-41d7-ac37-ecdde74fc532?source=cve

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