{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6497 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2024-6497 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2024-6497 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cifi SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO, published on 20 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-6497 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-6497 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in cifi SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO, published on 20 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-6497 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: cifi SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. 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.\n2. 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.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6497/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6497/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-6497","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6497/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-6497","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-r2j9-gh64-cp47"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via the url parameter, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[{"product":"seo_plugin_by_squirrly_seo","vendor":"squirrly"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"},{"id":"CWE-89","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command"}],"description":"The SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘url’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 12.3.19 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. 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. CVE-2024-43286 appears to be a duplicate of this issue.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO \u003c= 12.3.19 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via url Parameter","id":"CVE-2024-6497","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"CollectChat \u003c 2.4.4 - Admin+ XSS","id":"CVE-2024-6498"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Light Poll \u003c= 1.0.0 - Polls Deletion via CSRF","id":"CVE-2024-6496"},"products":["SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO"],"published":"2024-07-20","related":[{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"WordPress SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO plugin \u003c= 12.4.03 - SQL Injection vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-22783","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-27"},{"cvss_score":8.5,"headline":"WordPress Squirrly SEO plugin \u003c= 12.3.19 - SQL Injection vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-43286","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-18"},{"cvss_score":7.6,"headline":"WordPress Squirrly SEO - Advanced Pack Plugin \u003c= 2.3.8 is vulnerable to SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2023-50854","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-12-28"},{"cvss_score":7.6,"headline":"WordPress SEO Plugin by Squirrly SEO Plugin \u003c= 12.1.10 is vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload","id":"CVE-2022-38140","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-28"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"WordPress Squirrly SEO plugin \u003c= 12.4.07 - Broken Access Control vulnerability","id":"CVE-2025-24654","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-03"},{"cvss_score":7.1,"headline":"WordPress Squirrly SEO plugin \u003c= 12.3.16 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-29790","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-03-27"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-04-08","vendors":["cifi"]},"summary":"Authenticated attackers can inject arbitrary web scripts via the url parameter, leading to stored XSS execution on victim pages.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6497/"}