CVE-2024-0852
Published: 15 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-0852 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Dev4Press Coreactivity. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 13.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-16635
Vulnerability details
The coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 does not escape some request data when outputting it back in the admin dashboard, allowing unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attack against high privilege users such as admin
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.