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CVE-2024-12874: Top Comments <= 1.0 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: yes
• Published: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Top Comments WordPress plugin through 1.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, 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

• Top Comments: through 1.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7cc14a87-4605-49f6-9d51-0b9eb57e6c9d/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7cc14a87-4605-49f6-9d51-0b9eb57e6c9d/

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