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CVE-2024-1427: The Post Grid <= 7.7.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via section title tag

• 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: 2024-07-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The The Post Grid – Shortcode, Gutenberg Blocks and Elementor Addon for Post Grid plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the section title tag attribute in all versions up to, and including, 7.7.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• RadiusTheme The Post Grid: before 7.7.2 — fixed in 7.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: RadiusTheme The Post Grid 7.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-post-grid/tags/7.4.2/app/Helpers/Fns.php#L1051
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3080313/#file347
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc870ce5-1352-43f2-b80b-45065ceed750?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/the-post-grid/tags/7.4.2/app/Helpers/Fns.php#L1051
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3080313/#file347
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/fc870ce5-1352-43f2-b80b-45065ceed750?source=cve

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