CVE-2024-4096
Published: 30 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-4096 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Wpdarko Responsive Tabs. Its CVSS base score is 5.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 38.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-32658
Vulnerability details
The Responsive Tabs WordPress plugin through 4.0.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its Tab settings, which could allow high privilege users such as Contributors and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks
- 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.