CVE-2024-12769

CVSS 3.1 Score 3.5 of 10 (low)

Details

Published Mar 25, 2025
Updated: Mar 27, 2025

Summary

CVE-2024-12769 is a vulnerability affecting the Simple Banner plugin for WordPress before version 3.0.4. This issue enables Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, allowing high privilege users like admin to inject malicious scripts, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disabled in multisite setups. The plugin fails to sanitize and escape certain settings, making it an exploitable weakness for attackers.

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