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CVE-2024-5330: Breakdance <= 1.7.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: none known
• Published: 2024-08-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Breakdance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the breakdance_css_file_paths_cache parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.7.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• Breakdance: before 2.0 — fixed in 2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Breakdance 2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://breakdance.com/breakdance-2-0-now-available/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9dbd26f5-b75e-41a3-aefb-d6c8cc2cec7b?source=cve

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