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CVE-2024-10639: The Auto Prune Posts WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack

medium Affects auto-prune-posts (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.4, updated 2026-10-29; published ; advisory modified .

The Auto Prune Posts WordPress plugin before 3.0.0 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attack

Package
auto-prune-posts (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<3.0.0
Fixed in
3.0.0
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (25.6th percentile)
Published
2025-05-15
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordauto-prune-posts (WordPress plugin) advisories

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