CVE-2024-6497

8.8 HIGH
Published: July 20, 2024 Modified: April 08, 2026
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Description

The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. CVE-2024-43286 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/
Source: security@wordfence.com
Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
Source: security@wordfence.com
Product
https://nowotarski.info/wordpress-nonce-authorization/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3121853/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/squirrly-seo/#developers
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Product

9 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
8.8 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
22.9%
96th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

squirrly