CVE-2024-9227 PowerPress Podcasting < 11.9.18 - Author+ XSS

What is CVE-2024-9227?

CVE-2024-9227 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry, 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 PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry WordPress plugin before 11.9.18 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings when adding a podcast, which could allow admin users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9227?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Blubrry Powerpress.

How do I fix CVE-2024-9227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9227 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-2024-9227 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9227 exists.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown PowerPress Podcasting plugin by Blubrry

• CVE-2021-24123 PowerPress < 8.3.8 - Authenticated Arbitrary File Upload leading to RCE High 7.2
• CVE-2023-41239 WordPress PowerPress Podcasting Plugin <= 11.0.6 is vulnerable to Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-9230 PowerPress Podcasting < 11.9.18 - Author+ XSS via Podcast URL Medium 5.9
• CVE-2023-30778 WordPress PowerPress Podcasting Plugin <= 10.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 5.5
• CVE-2023-4820 PowerPress Podcasting < 11.0.12 - Contributor+ Stored XSS Medium 5.4

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-phhw-fr9r-6qv9.