CVE-2024-13704
Published: 18 February 2025
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 Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 45.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-13704 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.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-4817
Vulnerability details
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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Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables remote script injection/execution (T1190 for public app exploitation; T1059.007 for JavaScript payload execution).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Directly addresses insufficient input sanitization of the 'st_user_title' parameter by enforcing validation of all user inputs to prevent malicious script injection.
Mitigates lack of output escaping by filtering rendered content on pages to block execution of injected arbitrary web scripts.
Remediates the specific flaw in the Super Testimonials plugin versions up to 4.0.1 by identifying, patching, and verifying corrections for the stored XSS vulnerability.