CVE-2024-1985 is a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting all versions up to and including 4.4.2 of the Simple Membership plugin for WordPress. This flaw, rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.1), stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'Display Name' parameter, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious web scripts. While exploitation requires social engineering and a logged-in user to view the injected content, its impact is limited to client-side script execution. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 4.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:simple-membership-plugin:simple_membership:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.