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CVE-2024-8189: WP MultiTasking - WP Utilities <= 0.1.17 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• 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: none known
• Published: 2024-09-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wpmt_menu_name’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Affected products

• WP MultiTasking: through 0.1.17

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-multitasking/trunk/wp-multitasking.php#L29
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-multitasking/trunk/wp-multitasking.php#L71
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3158305/
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c976e5a-2f6c-4632-99a7-a512b3dd38e6?source=cve

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