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CVE-2024-8317
WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Ads <= 2.5.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via ad_alignment Attribute
Medium6.4EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Wordfence
Description
The WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Ads plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘ad_alignment’ attribute in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.6 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordfenceCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Weakness
Affected products
wpeka-club · WP AdCenter – Ad Manager & Adsense Ads
- affected ≤ 2.5.6
References (7)
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ac7f95c7-2159-4327-ba09-da7721f1312e?source=cve (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L2922 (opens in a new tab)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpadcenter/#developers (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L3020 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wpadcenter/trunk/admin/class-wpadcenter-admin.php#L3127 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3146736/#file6 (opens in a new tab)
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3146736/ (opens in a new tab)
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)
Record last updated .