CVE-2024-6408
Published: 31 July 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-6408 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in 10Web Slider. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 39.3% 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
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-47512
Vulnerability details
The Slider by 10Web WordPress plugin before 1.2.57 does not sanitise and escape its Slider Title, which could allow high privilege users such as editors and above to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed
- 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.