PT-2025-21448 · WordPress · The Top Comments Wordpress Plugin

Steven Pereira · Published 2025-05-15 · Updated 2025-05-16 · CVE-2024-12874

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Top Comments WordPress plugin versions 1.0 and earlier

Description: The issue allows high privilege users, such as admins, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks. This can occur even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed, for example, in a multisite setup. The problem arises because some settings are not properly sanitised and escaped.

Recommendations: For The Top Comments WordPress plugin versions 1.0 and earlier, update to a version that properly sanitises and escapes its settings to prevent Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2024-12874

Affected Products

The Top Comments Wordpress Plugin

References · 4

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/7cc14a87-4605-49f6-9d51-0b9eb57e6c9d · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12874 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-12874 · Vendor Advisory
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1923235110901424167 · Twitter Post