CVE-2024-12566 Email Subscribers < 5.7.45 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts via form settings in the Email Subscribers plugin, leading to stored XSS attacks.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-12566?
CVE-2024-12566 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Email Subscribers by Icegram Express, published on 13 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The Email Subscribers by Icegram Express WordPress plugin before 5.7.45 does not sanitise and escape some of form 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
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-12566?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Icegram Email Subscribers \& Newsletters.
How do I fix CVE-2024-12566?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-12566 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-2024-12566 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-12566 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Email Subscribers by Icegram Express
- CVE-2024-6172 SQL injection in Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
- CVE-2024-4295 Email Subscribers by Icegram Express <= 5.7.20 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection via hash
- CVE-2019-13569 SQL injection in n/a
- CVE-2022-3981 Icegram Express < 5.5.1 - Subscriber+ SQLi
- CVE-2022-0439 Email Subscribers & Newsletters < 5.3.2 - Subscriber+ Blind SQL injection
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cw8x-p7hf-968r.