CVE-2024-9595 TablePress <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Authenticated attackers with Author access can inject arbitrary scripts into TablePress tables, leading to stored XSS execution for other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-9595?
CVE-2024-9595 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy, published on 12 Oct 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the table cell content in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Author-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9595?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Tablepress Tablepress.
How do I fix CVE-2024-9595?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9595 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-2024-9595 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-9595 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in tobiasbg TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy
- CVE-2019-20180 Other in n/a
- CVE-2025-5096 TablePress <= 3.1.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) DOM-Based Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Multiple Parameters
- CVE-2025-2685 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
- CVE-2024-4354 TablePress – Tables in WordPress made easy <= 2.3 - Authenticated (Author+) Server-Side Request Forgery via DNS Rebind
- CVE-2017-10889 XML external entity in TablePress
Sources
Also known as GHSA-rpxr-4v66-8vf4.