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CVE-2024-6497

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-6497 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress, versions up to and including 12.3.19. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages due to insufficient input sanitization. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, potentially leading to limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.3.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrly:seo_plugin_by_squirrly_seo:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1097 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

nowotarski.info / wordpress-nonce-authorization
ExploitThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/squirrly-seo/trunk/controllers/Api.php
Product
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/3121853
Patch
wordpress.org / plugins/squirrly-seo
Product
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bb3aa613-8f34-4d96-8ddf-41fcdcf65c59
Third Party Advisory