CVE-2024-4038 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The The Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro plugin for WordPress for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution in all versions up to, and including, 5.3.1. This is due to the plugin for WordPress allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01081.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3080830%40back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce&new=3080830%40back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d7f59489-9bff-4d22-8f99-6ea52d702ecf?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-94

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-09T20:03:40.586Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:26:41.438Z

Reserved: 2024-04-22T18:40:47.065Z

Link: CVE-2024-4038

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-01T20:26:57.274Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-14T15:42:44.400

Modified: 2026-04-08T19:21:31.390

Link: CVE-2024-4038

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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