CVE-2024-56030
Published: 02 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-56030 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).
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.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-15 (Information Output Filtering).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-56030 is an Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation vulnerability, classified as Reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) under CWE-79, in the Carver Lab 10CentMail Subscription Management and Analytics WordPress plugin. This issue affects the plugin from unknown initial versions through version 2.1.50.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.1 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L), indicating network accessibility, low attack complexity, no required privileges, and user interaction such as clicking a malicious link. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it by crafting inputs that reflect malicious scripts back to victims' browsers in the site's context, achieving low impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with a changed scope.
The Patchstack advisory at https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/10centmail-subscription-management-and-analytics/vulnerability/wordpress-10centmail-plugin-2-1-50-reflected-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve documents the reflected XSS in the 10CentMail WordPress plugin up to version 2.1.50 and provides details for mitigation.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-52928
Vulnerability details
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Carver Lab 10CentMail 10centmail-subscription-management-and-analytics allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects 10CentMail: from n/a through <= 2.1.50.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Reflected XSS in public-facing WordPress plugin directly enables exploitation of web app (T1190) and arbitrary JavaScript execution in victim browser (T1059.007).
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Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Enforces input validation and error handling to neutralize malicious scripts in reflected inputs to the 10CentMail WordPress plugin, directly preventing XSS exploitation.
Requires output filtering and encoding of user inputs prior to web page generation, comprehensively mitigating reflected XSS in the vulnerable plugin.
Mandates timely identification, reporting, and remediation of flaws like the reflected XSS vulnerability in 10CentMail versions through 2.1.50.