CVE-2024-13731CWE-79

Alert Box Block – Display notice/alerts in the front end <= 1.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Alert Box Block

Medium · published March 25, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
20.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Alert Box Block – Display notice/alerts in the front end. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Alert Box block in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.3 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00293 · 20.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2025-03-25T08:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAR 08:22Z
    Alert Box Block – Display notice/alerts in the front end <= 1.1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Alert Box Block
    cvelistv5