# CVE-2024-13731: Cross-site scripting in Alert Box Block – Display Custom Alerts and Messages

> Authenticated contributors can inject arbitrary scripts via the Alert Box block, leading to stored XSS execution on frontend pages.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 8 Apr 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hppv-p84g-253f

## What is CVE-2024-13731?

CVE-2024-13731 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in bplugins Alert Box Block – Display Custom Alerts and Messages, published on 25 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Alert Box Block – Display notice/alerts in the front end. plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's Alert Box block in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.3 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-13731?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-13731?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-13731 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-13731 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13731 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-13731 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-13731 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in bplugins Alert Box Block – Display Custom Alerts and Messages, published on 25 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-13731 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: bplugins Alert Box Block – Display Custom Alerts and Messages. 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-2024-13731/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13731/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13731
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-13731
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-13731

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-13731/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.