CVE-2024-8239

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (5.4) in squirrly starbox. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not properly render social media profiles URLs in certain contexts, like the malicious user's profile or pages where the starbox shortcode is used, which may be abused by users with at least the contributor role to conduct Stored XSS attacks.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 31% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-79
Published: 2024-09-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

squirrly:starbox

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/02796da0-218d-4cbb-98ca-49eeea83cac5/

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