CVE-2024-4002 - Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel < 2.6.9 - Editor+ Stored XSS · CoreCVE

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Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel < 2.6.9 - Editor+ Stored XSS

Published May 15, 2025

3.5

LOW

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.34%

Description

The Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel WordPress plugin before 2.6.9 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel Default
unaffected
- Version
  0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <2.6.9

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Carousel, Slider, Gallery by WP Carousel

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
0	affected	<2.6.9

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (1)

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/298b51ec-afad-4bc1-968d-76c59e55fc05/
exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/298b51ec-afad-4bc1-968d-76c59e55fc05/		exploitvdb-entrytechnical-descriptionThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner WPScan

Published May 15, 2025

Updated Nov 13, 2025

Reserved Apr 19, 2024

Link CVE-2024-4002

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated May 16, 2025

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2024-4002

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2024-4002