CVE-2024-1273: The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.0 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

medium Affects starbox (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published 2024-03-11; advisory modified 2026-06-17.

The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.0 does not sanitise and escape some parameters, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Package: starbox (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions: <3.5.0
Fixed in: 3.5.0
Severity: medium CVSS 6.1
Exploitation: not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (38.3th percentile)
Published: 2024-03-11
Source: nvd

References

CWE-79

NVD record starbox (WordPress plugin) advisories

Am I affected?

Find out in one command. phpwarden checks your WordPress install against this advisory and 20,000+ others, ranked by real-world exploitation (CISA KEV + EPSS). Free, offline, open data.

# one-time install
pip install phpwarden

# then
phpwarden wordpress /var/www/html

Or keep it checked automatically with the GitHub Action or a nightly cron; see WordPress docs.

Install docs How findings are ranked

Related advisories

CVE-2024-0366 medium The Starbox – the Author Box for Humans plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Dir same package: starbox (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2023-6806 medium The Starbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Job same package: starbox (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2024-7955 medium The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settin same package: starbox (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2024-8239 medium The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not properly render social media profiles same package: starbox (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2024-0256 medium The Starbox plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the Prof same package: starbox (WordPress plugin)
CVE-2020-11023 KEV medium Potential XSS vulnerability in jQuery same weakness: CWE-79