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CVE-2024-9588

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-9588 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Category and Taxonomy Meta Fields plugin for WordPress, affecting versions up to and including 1.0.0. This flaw, rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.4), stems from inadequate nonce validation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to add or delete taxonomy meta if they can trick an administrator into clicking a malicious link. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:aftabhusain:category_and_taxonomy_meta_fields:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
6.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0016 is in the 5th 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

plugins.trac.wordpress.org / browser/wp-custom-taxonomy-meta/trunk/includes/options.php
Product
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/2dc9c744-6ffb-4d7a-94ce-ba576d7b6d47
Third Party Advisory