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CVE-2024-13517: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Easy Digital Downloads WordPress plugin (versions up to 3.3.2) contains a Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability (CVE-2024-13517) discovered in January 2025. The vulnerability affects the Title value field and is specifically present in multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation) and has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 4.0 (Medium) from NIST and 4.4 (Medium) from Wordfence. The technical issue stems from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the Title value field (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

When exploited, this vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with administrator-level access to inject arbitrary web scripts into pages. These malicious scripts will execute whenever a user accesses the compromised page, potentially affecting all visitors to the affected pages (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

A patch has been released to address this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to versions newer than 3.3.2 to mitigate the risk (WordPress Plugin).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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