Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-5575

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 13 July 2024

Published
13 July 2024
Modified
13 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0027 50.3th percentile
Risk Priority 10 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-5575 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Metaphorcreations Ditty. Its CVSS base score is 4.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Keylogging (T1056.001); ranked in the top 49.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Ditty WordPress plugin before 3.1.43 does not sanitise and escape some of its blocks' settings, which could allow high privilege users such as authors to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1056.001 Keylogging Collection
Adversaries may log user keystrokes to intercept credentials as the user types them.
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T1056.002 GUI Input Capture Collection
Adversaries may mimic common operating system GUI components to prompt users for credentials with a seemingly legitimate prompt.
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T1113 Screen Capture Collection
Adversaries may attempt to take screen captures of the desktop to gather information over the course of an operation.
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T1115 Clipboard Data Collection
Adversaries may collect data stored in the clipboard from users copying information within or between applications.
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T1185 Browser Session Hijacking Collection
Adversaries may take advantage of security vulnerabilities and inherent functionality in browser software to change content, modify user-behaviors, and intercept information as part of various browser session hijacking techniques.
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T1550.004 Web Session Cookie Lateral Movement
Adversaries can use stolen session cookies to authenticate to web applications and services.
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T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie Credential Access
An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
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Why these techniques?

Stored XSS allows authors+ to inject arbitrary JavaScript executed in browsers of viewing users (including admins), enabling keylogging/GUI input capture, screen capture, clipboard access, browser session hijacking, and web session cookie theft.

Affected Assets

metaphorcreations
ditty
≤ 3.1.43

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References