CVE-2024-2404: better comments vulnerability

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
CVE-2024-2404CVSS 5.4CMS

CVE-2024-2404: better comments vulnerability

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

CVSS
5.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
32.71%
Known exploited
not in KEV
Product
better comments

What is known

The Better Comments WordPress plugin before 1.5.6 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow low privilege users such as Subscribers to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

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