Stored XSS via unescaped maintenance headings
Published Mar 26, 2025 · Updated Mar 26, 2025
Stored XSS in Smart Maintenance Mode before 1.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to inject script through maintenance-page settings. The heading and sub-heading fields are stored without sanitization or output escaping and are rendered on the public maintenance page. Administrator access is required even when unfiltered_html is disabled, and a visitor must load the page for the injected script to execute in that browser.
Summary
What happened
Stored XSS in Smart Maintenance Mode before 1.5.2 allows remote authenticated users to inject script through maintenance-page settings. The heading and sub-heading fields are stored without sanitization or output escaping and are rendered on the public maintenance page. Administrator access is required even when unfiltered_html is disabled, and a visitor must load the page for the injected script to execute in that browser.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-12683
- Published
- Mar 26, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 26, 2025
- Vendor
- Brijesh Kothari
- Product
- Smart Maintenance Mode
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1189
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 26, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.5.2
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- WPScan heading and sub-heading stored-XSS proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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