# CVE-2024-6224: Send email only on Reply to My Comment <= 1.0.6 - Stored XSS via CSRF

> Attackers can inject stored XSS payloads via CSRF, allowing admin account takeover in the Send email only on Reply to My Comment plugin.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.9 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 30 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 28 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-579f-f345-5j7p

## What is CVE-2024-6224?

CVE-2024-6224 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Send email only on Reply to My Comment, published on 30 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The Send email only on Reply to My Comment WordPress plugin through 1.0.6 does not have CSRF check in some places, and is missing sanitisation as well as escaping, which could allow attackers to make logged in admin add Stored XSS payloads via a CSRF attack

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-6224?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Yasirwazir Send Email Only on Reply to My Comment.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-6224?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6224 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-6224 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6224 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Send email only on Reply to My Comment

- [CVE-2024-6223](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6223/): Send email only on Reply to My Comment <= 1.0.6 - Reflected XSS (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6224 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-6224 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Send email only on Reply to My Comment, published on 30 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6224 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Send email only on Reply to My Comment. 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-2024-6224/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6224/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-6224
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6224
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-6224

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6224/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.