CVE-2024-5799: The CM Pop-Up Banners for WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its popup fields, which could allow high privilege users such as Contributors to perform Cross-Site Scripti

medium Affects cm-popup (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

The CM Pop-Up Banners for WordPress plugin before 1.7.3 does not sanitise and escape some of its popup fields, which could allow high privilege users such as Contributors to perform Cross-Site Scripti

Package
cm-popup (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<1.7.3
Fixed in
1.7.3
Severity
medium  CVSS 4.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 0% (26.1th percentile)
Published
2024-09-12
Source
nvd

References

CWE-79
NVD recordcm-popup (WordPress plugin) advisories

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