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CVE-2024-2846: Visual Footer Credit Remover <= 1.2 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Visual Footer Credit Remover plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'selector' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• upwerd Visual Footer Credit Remover: through 1.2

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3081401%40visual-footer-credit-remover&new=3081401%40visual-footer-credit-remover&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fcb65a0-4218-4728-9c29-0d1a03f438a6?source=cve
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3081401%40visual-footer-credit-remover&new=3081401%40visual-footer-credit-remover&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9fcb65a0-4218-4728-9c29-0d1a03f438a6?source=cve

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