CVE-2024-13330

HighPublic PoC

Published: 04 February 2025

Published

04 February 2025

Modified

13 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 0.0177 83.1th percentile

Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13330 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Canaveralstudio Justrows Free. 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 16.9% 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-2024-13330 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the JustRows free WordPress plugin through version 0.2. The plugin fails to sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, enabling attackers to inject and execute arbitrary scripts in the context of a victim's browser. This issue is classified under CWE-79 and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers (PR:N) who trick targeted users, particularly high-privilege ones such as administrators, into interacting with a malicious link or page (UI:R). Upon successful exploitation, the reflected XSS payload executes within the victim's browser session, potentially allowing limited impacts such as low-level confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations in a changed security scope (S:C).

Mitigation details are available in the WPScan advisory at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/b0360650-8c7a-4e17-8618-b5ef1c71ccbf/.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-51535

Vulnerability details

The JustRows free WordPress plugin through 0.2 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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T1059.007 JavaScript Execution

Adversaries may abuse various implementations of JavaScript for execution.

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Why these techniques?

Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of the web app (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007) via malicious link.

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