CVE-2024-2793
Published: 31 May 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-2793 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wordpress (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 11.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
The Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via comments in all versions up to and including 3.30. The flaw arises from insufficient input sanitization and output escaping in the plugin's AJAX handling routines, allowing malicious input to be persisted and later rendered without proper escaping.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the issue remotely with low complexity and no required user interaction. Successful injection permits arbitrary web scripts to execute in the browsers of users who later access the affected pages, resulting in limited confidentiality and integrity impacts under a changed scope.
Patches are provided in WordPress plugin repository changesets 3094260 and 3094999, which modify the vulnerable functions in wpf_ajax_functions.php to address the sanitization and escaping deficiencies.
The EPSS score rose from lower values after disclosure to a peak of 0.0678 on 2025-12-11 before receding to the current 0.0397, indicating measurable post-disclosure exploitation interest.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-27737
Vulnerability details
The Visual Website Collaboration, Feedback & Project Management – Atarim plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via comments in all versions up to, and including, 3.30 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it…
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possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
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.