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CVE-2024-4756: WP Backpack <= 2.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 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: yes
• Published: 2024-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP Backpack WordPress plugin through 2.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• WP Backpack: through 2.1

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ce4688b6-6713-43b5-aa63-8a3b036bd332/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/ce4688b6-6713-43b5-aa63-8a3b036bd332/

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