# CVE-2024-10555: MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Button Width

> Admins can inject malicious scripts via button width settings in MaxButtons plugin, enabling stored XSS attacks in multisite environments.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 20 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xrq3-j5cq-h7p4

## What is CVE-2024-10555?

CVE-2024-10555 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons, published on 20 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons WordPress plugin before 9.8.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-10555?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Maxfoundry Maxbuttons.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-10555?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-10555 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-10555 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10555 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons

- [CVE-2023-36503](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-36503/): WordPress MaxButtons Plugin <= 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-7029](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-7029/): WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.6 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-3026](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3026/): WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons < 9.7.8 - Editor+ Stored XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-6499](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6499/): WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.8 - Full Path Disclosure (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2024-8968](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8968/): MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Text Color (medium 4.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-10555 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-10555 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons, published on 20 Dec 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-10555 exists.

Affected product: Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10555/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10555/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-10555
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10555
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-10555

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-10555/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.