CVE-2024-1846: Responsive Tabs < 4.0.7 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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 Responsive Tabs WordPress plugin before 4.0.7 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

Responsive Tabs: before 4.0.7 — fixed in 4.0.7

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Responsive Tabs 4.0.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ea2a8420-4b0e-4efb-a0c6-ceea996dae5a/
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ea2a8420-4b0e-4efb-a0c6-ceea996dae5a/

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