CVE-2024-1712: Carousel Slider < 2.2.7 - Editor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: yes
Published: 2024-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Carousel Slider WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 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

Carousel Slider: before 2.2.7 — fixed in 2.2.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Carousel Slider 2.2.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/23805a61-9fcd-4744-a60d-05c8cb43ee01/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/23805a61-9fcd-4744-a60d-05c8cb43ee01/

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