What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-6718: PVN Auth Popup <= 1.0.0 - Contributor+ XSS via Shortcode

• 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: 2025-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The PVN Auth Popup WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Affected products

• PVN Auth Popup: through 1.0.0

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7d28ea72-8c3b-4607-b877-7b10d954fef9/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7d28ea72-8c3b-4607-b877-7b10d954fef9/

Get alerted when CVE-2024-6718 or the next vulnerability affects your stack