CVE-2024-0852 (GCVE-0-2024-0852)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-15 20:09 – Updated: 2025-11-13 21:11
VLAI?
Title
coreActivity < 1.8.1 - Unauthenticated Stored XSS
Summary
The coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress plugin before 1.8.1 does not escape some request data when outputting it back in the admin dashboard, allowing unauthenticated users to perform Stored XSS attack against high privilege users such as admin
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/743c4d79-e1d5-4f… exploitvdb-entrytechnical-description
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown coreActivity: Activity Logging for WordPress Affected: 0 , < 1.8.1 (semver)
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Credits
WPScan
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