CVE-2024-12874 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Top Comments WordPress plugin up to version 1.0, affecting installations where the plugin is active. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.8) allows high-privilege users, such as administrators, to inject malicious scripts due to insufficient sanitization and escaping of certain settings, even when the unfiltered_html capability is restricted. While the attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and high privileges (PR:H), it could lead to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts (C:L/I:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:top_comments_project:top_comments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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