CVE-2024-2840: Enhanced Media Library <= 2.8.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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: none known
Published: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Enhanced Media Library plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via media upload functionality in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.9 due to the plugin allowing 'dfxp' files to be uploaded. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

webbistro Enhanced Media Library: through 2.8.9

References

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/enhanced-media-library/tags/2.8.9&new_path=/enhanced-media-library/tags/2.8.10&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15b30ecb-e3ce-4092-841b-3a1b2553596a?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=/enhanced-media-library/tags/2.8.9&new_path=/enhanced-media-library/tags/2.8.10&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15b30ecb-e3ce-4092-841b-3a1b2553596a?source=cve

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