CVE-2024-11898 Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests <= 2.6.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Q: What is CVE-2024-11898?

CVE-2024-11898 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more, published on 3 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Q: Is CVE-2024-11898 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Q: How do I fix CVE-2024-11898?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11898 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Medium 6.4 Published 3 Dec 2024 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via shortcode attributes, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-11898?

CVE-2024-11898 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in akashmalik Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more, published on 3 Dec 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests. Boost subscribers, traffic, repeat visits, referrals, sales and more plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'swin-campaign' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.6.9 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.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-11898?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Appsmav Scratch \& Win.

How do I fix CVE-2024-11898?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-11898 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2024-11898 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-11898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

CVE-2024-12545 Scratch & Win – Giveaways and Contests <= 2.7.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via reset_installation Function Medium 5.4

Sources

Also known as GHSA-7c5f-5rc5-g5mc.