CVE-2024-2734
Published: 10 April 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-2734 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Bold-Themes Bold Page Builder. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 41.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-27679
Vulnerability details
The Bold Page Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's AI features all versions up to, and including, 4.8.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it…
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possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Other Platforms
- Risk Domain
- Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- The vulnerability affects the AI features of the Bold Page Builder WordPress plugin, a content management platform integrating AI capabilities for page building, best categorized under Other Platforms as it does not fit core frameworks, libraries, or specialized AI tools.
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Stored XSS in WordPress plugin enables authenticated attackers to inject JS executed in victims' browsers upon page access, facilitating public-facing app exploitation, client-side execution, and browser credential/session cookie theft.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.