CVE-2024-13517 Cross-site scripting in Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy

Medium 4.4 Published 18 Jan 2025 Updated 8 Apr 2026

Authenticated administrators can inject arbitrary scripts via the Title field in Easy Digital Downloads, affecting multi-site or restricted HTML configurations.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: An administrator
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2024-13517?

CVE-2024-13517 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads, published on 18 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Easy Digital Downloads – eCommerce Payments and Subscriptions made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Title value in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13517?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads.

How do I fix CVE-2024-13517?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13517 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-2024-13517 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13517 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Awesomemotive Easy Digital Downloads vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-w562-47rq-6pq5.