CVE-2024-10152

HighPublic PoC

Published: 26 February 2025

Published

26 February 2025

Modified

15 May 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS Score 0.0264 86.1th percentile

Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-10152 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Elementengage Simple Certain Time To Show Content. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 13.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2024-10152 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, classified under CWE-79, in the Simple Certain Time to Show Content WordPress plugin versions before 1.3.1. The flaw arises because the plugin does not sanitize or escape a parameter before outputting it back on the page, enabling attackers to inject and execute malicious scripts in the browser of affected users.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) but user interaction (UI:R), and it changes the scope (S:C) to achieve low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:L/I:L/A:L), resulting in a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1. An unauthenticated attacker can target high-privilege users, such as administrators, by tricking them into visiting a maliciously crafted link or page, leading to script execution in the victim's session context for potential session theft or further site compromise.

The WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b4d17da2-4c47-4fd1-a6bd-6692b07cf710/ details the issue, with mitigation achieved by updating the plugin to version 1.3.1 or later to properly sanitize and escape the vulnerable parameter.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-5303

Vulnerability details

The Simple Certain Time to Show Content WordPress plugin before 1.3.1 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such…

as admin.

CWE(s): CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection

Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.

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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access

An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote exploitation of the app (T1190) and facilitates browser session hijacking or cookie theft via injected scripts (T1185/T1539).

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1