CVE-2024-13730 Podlove Podcast Publisher < 4.2.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS

What is CVE-2024-13730?

CVE-2024-13730 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Podlove Podcast Publisher, published on 15 May 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Podlove Podcast Publisher WordPress plugin before 4.2.1 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

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13730?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Podlove Podlove Podcast Publisher.

How do I fix CVE-2024-13730?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13730 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-2024-13730 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-13730 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Podlove Podcast Publisher

• CVE-2021-24666 Podlove Podcast Publisher < 3.5.6 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-10942 SQL injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-43984 WordPress Podlove Podcast Publisher plugin <= 4.1.13 - CSRF to Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-52393 WordPress Podlove Podcast Publisher plugin <= 4.1.15 - Admin+ Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability Critical 9.1
• CVE-2017-12949 SQL injection in n/a High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-h2f3-9263-mhpx.