CVE-2024-5884: Beauty <= 1.1.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via tpl_featured_cat_id Parameter

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: 2024-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Beauty theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘tpl_featured_cat_id’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.4 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

allprices Beauty: through 1.1.4

References

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/beauty/1.1.4/functions.php#L46
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c1089958-a481-47b1-9dc6-799a1a7930c8?source=cve

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