CVE-2024-55864
Published: 17 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-55864 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 4.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 49.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-52838
Vulnerability details
Cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in My WP Customize Admin/Frontend versions prior to ver 1.24.1. If a malicious administrative user customizes the administrative page with some malicious contents, an arbitrary script may be executed on the web browser of the other…
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users who are accessing the 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.