CVE-2024-12523: States Map US <= 2.4.2 - 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: 2024-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The States Map US plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'states_map' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 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

wssoffice21 States Map US: through 2.4.2

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ymc-states-map/trunk/includes/frontend/Shortcode.php
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ymc-states-map/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bdd07160-721b-4807-a227-72cd91faef39?source=cve

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