vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: wpdiscuz: CVE-2024-6704: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 1, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The Comments – wpDiscuz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to HTML Injection in all versions up to, and including, 7.6.21. This is due to a lack of filtering of HTML tags in comments. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to add HTML such as hyperlinks to comments when rich editing is disabled.

Solution

wpdiscuz-plugin-cve-2024-6704
Title
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