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CVE-2024-7606: Front End Users <= 3.2.28 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting 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: none known
• Published: 2024-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Front End Users plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'user-search' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.28 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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

• rustaurius Front End Users: before 3.2.29 — fixed in 3.2.29

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rustaurius Front End Users 3.2.29. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/front-end-only-users/trunk/Shortcodes/Insert_User_Search.php#L106
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/front-end-only-users/trunk/Shortcodes/Insert_User_Search.php#L80
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3142978/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/048ea84c-0d53-434b-ae49-d804ec1de8c4?source=cve

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