CVE-2024-13836

HighPublic PoC

Published: 11 March 2025

Published

11 March 2025

Modified

06 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 0.0015 35.1th percentile

Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-13836 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Forsyspress Wp Login Control. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 35.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); 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-2024-13836 is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the WP Login Control WordPress plugin in versions through 2.0.0. The plugin fails to sanitize and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, enabling attackers to inject and execute malicious scripts. Published on 2025-03-11, it 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) and maps to CWE-79.

The vulnerability can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity, requiring user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. It targets high-privilege users like administrators, allowing attackers to execute scripts in the victim's browser context upon successful XSS, potentially resulting in limited impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, including session theft or unauthorized actions under the victim's privileges.

WPScan advisories detail the issue at https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/26c2026a-1490-4a0f-9d1d-54ee43c69f22/, recommending mitigation through updating the plugin beyond version 2.0.0 to address the sanitization flaw.

EU & UK References

🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-54182

Vulnerability details

The WP Login Control WordPress plugin through 2.0.0 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 enables exploitation of public-facing applications (T1190) and direct execution of malicious JavaScript in browser context via crafted links (T1059.007).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0