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CVE-2024-1379: Website Article Monetization By MageNet <= 1.0.11 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Website Article Monetization By MageNet plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'abp_auth_key' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.11 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping and a missing authorization check. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• magenet Website Article Monetization By MageNet: before 1.0.12 — fixed in 1.0.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: magenet Website Article Monetization By MageNet 1.0.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/website-article-monetization-by-magenet/trunk/admin/article-backlinks-admin.php#L110
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3058889%40website-article-monetization-by-magenet&new=3058889%40website-article-monetization-by-magenet&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8564dbb-6be8-4999-be65-d28609e05451?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/website-article-monetization-by-magenet/trunk/admin/article-backlinks-admin.php#L110
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b8564dbb-6be8-4999-be65-d28609e05451?source=cve

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