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CVE-2024-2848
Responsive <= 5.0.2 - Missing Authorization to HTML Injection
High7.5EPSS 0.65%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The Responsive theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the save_footer_text_callback function in all versions up to, and including, 5.0.2. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary HTML content into the site's footer.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected ≤ 5.0.2
References (3)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/dbe0cc57-a17d-4f91-887f-fe819b32f6b3?source=cve (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=222494%40responsive&new=222494%40responsive&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/22/1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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