Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.
Summary
CVE-2024-13704 is a high-severity Basic XSS (CWE-80) vulnerability in Themepoints Super Testimonials. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Junk Data (T1001.001); ranked at the 27th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation) — see the control section below for these in your framework.
Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary
Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.
CVE-2024-13704 is a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Super Testimonials plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 4.0.1. The issue arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'st_user_title' parameter, enabling the injection of arbitrary web scripts into pages.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), requiring no privileges (PR:N) or user interaction (UI:N), and resulting in a changed scope (S:C) with low impacts to confidentiality and integrity but no availability impact, as reflected in its CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.2. Exploitation allows attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute whenever any user accesses the affected page.
Advisories and patch details are available from the WordPress plugin trac changeset at https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3240039%40super-testimonial&new=3240039%40super-testimonial&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= and Wordfence threat intelligence at https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/20720912-6bfd-4df1-97c7-7025c16d7a0f?source=cve. The vulnerability is linked to CWE-79 and CWE-80.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4817
Vulnerability Data
The Super Testimonials plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'st_user_title' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.0.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to…
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inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
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Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Developer testing and evaluation can discover missing or incorrect neutralization of script tags through targeted XSS test cases.
Input validation explicitly requires checking and neutralizing untrusted web inputs containing script-related characters before they reach a downstream renderer.
Output filtering can catch or sanitize unneutralized script content before it is served to users.
Secure engineering principles include mandatory output encoding and neutralization of HTML metacharacters to stop injection at the source.
Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
Secure SDLC practices directly target introduction of XSS via coding standards/testing (mostly), yet the single broad outcome leaves many specific neutralization vectors unaddressed (partial).
Patching and EOL replacement can remediate known XSS instances in libraries or frameworks (partial) but do nothing to enforce input neutralization in application code (none).
Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI
Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.
A.5.6 only promotes membership in groups to improve knowledge, receive alerts, and share information; it performs no action that stops XSS exploitation (or even the underlying neutralization defect) and is a pure dependency for other controls per the owner's labeling rule.