CVE-2024-6497
Estado: ModificadaMedia (6.1)—
The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 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. CVE-2024-43286 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 6.1
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 11%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 96
- Fecha de la puntuación: 3/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-89
- CWE-79
Referencias
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Api.php#L267
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb3aa613-8f34-4d96-8ddf-41fcdcf65c59?source=cve
- https://nowotarski.info/wordpress-nonce-authorization/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Api.php#L267
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb3aa613-8f34-4d96-8ddf-41fcdcf65c59?source=cve
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