CVE-2024-5223 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The Post Grid Gutenberg Blocks and WordPress Blog Plugin – PostX plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's file uploading feature in all versions up to, and including, 4.1.1 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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

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 0.00334.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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References

Link	Providers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ultimate-post/tags/4.0.4/addons/custom_font/Custom_Font.php#L13
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3093051/ultimate-post/trunk/addons/custom_font/Custom_Font.php
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/7234d4b9-a575-428a-9d08-2dc62ba41c30?source=cve

History

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-79

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00228}`	epss `{'score': 0.00175}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published: 2024-05-30T03:34:27.682Z

Updated: 2026-04-08T17:00:42.594Z

Reserved: 2024-05-22T19:43:55.495Z

Link: CVE-2024-5223

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-05-30T14:23:13.643Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-05-30T04:15:10.963

Modified: 2026-04-08T18:22:01.373

Link: CVE-2024-5223

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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