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CVE-2024-10112

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-10112 describes a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Simple News plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 2.8. This flaw allows authenticated attackers with contributor-level access or higher to inject malicious web scripts through the 'news' shortcode due to inadequate input sanitization and output escaping. Rated 6.4 MEDIUM on the CVSS scale, the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, potentially leading to information disclosure and limited integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
MortenpeterandersenSimple News
>= 0, <= 2.8CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 21,977 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 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

wordpress.org / plugins/simple-news
wordfence.com / threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/79147dad-4bce-40fb-b9c1-e211845251a0