# CVE-2024-4900: SEOPress < 7.8 - Contributor+ Open Redirect

> Contributors can perform open redirect attacks against users viewing malicious posts in the SEOPress WordPress plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 4 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vjx7-hf5r-chv4

## What is CVE-2024-4900?

CVE-2024-4900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown SEOPress , published on 24 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The SEOPress  WordPress plugin before 7.8 does not validate and escape one of its Post settings, which could allow contributor and above role to perform Open redirect attacks against any user viewing a malicious post

Weakness: CWE-601 (URL Redirection to Untrusted Site)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-4900?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Seopress Seopress.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-4900?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-4900 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-4900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown SEOPress 

- [CVE-2024-5488](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5488/): SEOPress < 7.9 - Unauthenticated Object Injection (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-1669](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-1669/): SEOPress < 6.5.0.3 - Admin+ PHP Object Injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2024-1168](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1168/): SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.9 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Social Image URL (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-1134](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1134/): SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2024-2165](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-2165/): SEOPress – On-site SEO <= 7.5.2.1 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-4900 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-4900 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Unknown SEOPress , published on 24 Jun 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-4900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown SEOPress . 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-2024-4900/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4900/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4900
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-4900
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-4900

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4900/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.