CVE-2024-1692

6.4 MEDIUM

Published: March 30, 2024 Modified: April 15, 2026

Description

The BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the meta description field in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&new=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a308fde-1c44-4c34-ace5-6820dc949f53?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&new=3054618%40boldgrid-easy-seo&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0a308fde-1c44-4c34-ace5-6820dc949f53?source=cve

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

4 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

6.4 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.1%

28th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

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