WordPress Elo Rating Shortcode plugin <= 1.0.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

published 2024-11-04 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-45479

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 17%
public exploits: 0; none known

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Marcel Pol Elo Rating Shortcode elo-rating-shortcode allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Elo Rating Shortcode: from n/a through <= 1.0.3.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Marcel Pol Elo Rating Shortcode 1.0.4

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-11-04)

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD	3.1	5.4	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

Marcel Pol Elo Rating Shortcode

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

patchstack.com /database/Wordpress/Plugin/elo-rating-shortcode/vulnerability/wordpress-elo-rating-shortcode-plugin-1-0-3-cros
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2024-51678
NVD CVE-2024-51678

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Summary