CVE-2024-31111

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Automattic WordPress allows Stored XSS.This issue affects WordPress: from 6.5 through 6.5.4, from 6.4 through 6.4.4, from 6.3 through 6.3.4, from 6.2 through 6.2.5, from 6.1 through 6.1.6, from 6.0 through 6.0.8, from 5.9 through 5.9.9.

How to fix CVE-2024-31111

To remediate CVE-2024-31111, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 5.9.10 or later
• —upgrade to 5.9.10 or later
• —upgrade to 5.7.14+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 5.7.14+dfsg1-0+deb11u1 or later
• —upgrade to 6.1.9+dfsg1-0+deb12u1 or later

Is CVE-2024-31111 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (5)

• >= 5.9.0, < 5.9.10, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.9, >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.7, >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.6, >= 6.3.0, < 6.3.5, >= 6.4.0, < 6.4.5, >= 6.5.0, < 6.5.5
• >= 5.9.0, < 5.9.10, >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.9, >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.7, >= 6.2.0, < 6.2.6, >= 6.3.0, < 6.3.5, >= 6.4.0, < 6.4.5, >= 6.5.0, < 6.5.5
• from 0, < 5.7.14+dfsg1-0+deb11u1
• from 0, < 5.7.14+dfsg1-0+deb11u1
• from 0, < 6.1.9+dfsg1-0+deb12u1

CVSS scores

References (4)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-31111
• WEBnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31111
• WEBpatchstack.com/database/vulnerability/wordpress/wordpress-wordpress-core-core-6-5-5-cross-site-scripting-xss-via-template-part-vulnerability?_s_id=cve
• WEBwordpress.org/news/2024/06/wordpress-6-5-5/