Description
The SEO Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post meta in versions up to, and including, 1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Published: 2024-10-16
Score: 6.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-49984 The SEO Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post meta in versions up to, and including, 1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00045}

epss

{'score': 0.0005}


Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description The SEO Manager plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via post meta in versions up to, and including, 1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Title SEO Manager <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Post Meta
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


Subscriptions

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T16:37:21.320Z

Reserved: 2024-10-04T12:12:00.631Z

Link: CVE-2024-9521

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-10-16T14:10:29.972Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-10-16T02:15:07.280

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-9521

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-12T15:42:41Z

Weaknesses