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CVE-2024-2404: Better Comments < 1.5.6 - Subscriber+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-04-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Better Comments: before 1.5.6 — fixed in 1.5.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Better Comments 1.5.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a2cb7167-9edc-4640-87eb-4c511639e5b7/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a2cb7167-9edc-4640-87eb-4c511639e5b7/

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