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CVE-2024-8481

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-8481 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 6.2.2 of the Special Text Boxes plugin for WordPress. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes due to the plugin's improper handling of shortcodes within comments. With a CVSS score of 7.3, this vulnerability presents a low attack complexity and can lead to limited impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 6.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:simplelib:special_text_boxes:*:*:*:*:free:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.3HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.65%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
47.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0065 is in the 24th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/3166470
plugins.trac.wordpress.org / tags/6.2.2/wp-special-textboxes/trunk/stb-class.php
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/15b2a08f-2122-4eaf-ab46-1945cf6a68ca
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