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CVE-2024-2967: Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor <= 4.4.7 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 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: none known
• Published: 2024-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Guest posting / Frontend Posting wordpress plugin – WP Front User Submit / Front Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via form settings in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.7 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level permissions and above, 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

• aharonyan Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit: through 4.4.7

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3098586%40front-editor%2Ftrunk&old=3097587%40front-editor%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-editor/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82eb759f-e8d5-40c6-998f-f6981d9d6644?source=cve
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/front-editor/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/82eb759f-e8d5-40c6-998f-f6981d9d6644?source=cve

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