CVE-2024-6307

6.4 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.4). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the HTML API in various versions prior to 6.5.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on URLs. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2024-06-25
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/58472
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/58473
https://wordpress.org/news/2024/06/wordpress-6-5-5/
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/bc0d36f8-6569-49a1-b722-5cf57c4bb32a?source=cve
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/58472

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