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CVE-2024-5002: User Submitted Posts < 20240516 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 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: 2024-07-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The User Submitted Posts WordPress plugin before 20240516 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

• specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End: before 20240516 — fixed in 20240516

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: specialk User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End 20240516. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/da09b99a-fa40-428f-80b4-0af764fd2f4f/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/da09b99a-fa40-428f-80b4-0af764fd2f4f/

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