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CVE-2024-12444: WP Dispensary <= 4.5.0 - 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: 2025-01-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Dispensary plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'wpd_menu' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 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

• deviodigital WP Dispensary: through 4.5.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-dispensary/trunk/admin/wp-dispensary-shortcodes.php#L256
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dispensary
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/13753c4d-1b51-4db2-a69e-523857a50e55?source=cve

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