Vulnerability · Published Mar 30, 2024 · Assigned by Wordfence

CVE-2024-1692BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO <= 1.6.13 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Meta Description

Medium 6.4

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A medium-severity cross-site scripting in BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO from boldgrid. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 27% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 73.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the meta description field in all versions up to, and including, 1.6.13 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
boldgrid	BoldGrid Easy SEO – Simple and Effective SEO	0 – through 1.6.13

Weakness: CWE-79 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Official description

Affected products (as reported)

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