CVE-2024-13673: Big Boom Directory <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 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: 2025-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Big Boom Directory plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'bbd-search' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 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

bigboomdesign Big Boom Directory: through 2.5.0

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3258281%40big-boom-directory&new=3258281%40big-boom-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3262078%40big-boom-directory&new=3262078%40big-boom-directory&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5284cbe4-1550-4f3c-be54-e2de8a089512?source=cve

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