CVE-2024-9182 Maspik - Advanced Spam protection < 2.1.3 - Admin+ Stored XSS
Admin users can inject malicious scripts via unsanitized settings in the Maspik WordPress plugin, leading to stored XSS attacks.
- 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
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-9182?
CVE-2024-9182 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Maspik, 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 Maspik WordPress plugin before 2.1.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9182?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpmaspik Maspik.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9182?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9182 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-2024-9182 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9182 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Maspik
- CVE-2023-48272 WordPress Maspik – Spam blacklist Plugin <= 0.9.2 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2024-25101 WordPress Maspik – Spam blacklist Plugin <= 0.10.6 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
- CVE-2023-24008 WordPress Maspik – Spam blacklist Plugin <= 0.7.8 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Sources
Also known as GHSA-x579-fc2r-gxmj.