CVE-2024-12816

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Description

The NOTICE BOARD BY TOWKIR plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'notice-board' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 3.1 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/069b2f3e-da9d-476c-a9fa-1b7d445a704b?source=cve

https://wordpress.org/plugins/notice-board-by-towkir/

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/notice-board-by-towkir/trunk/towkir-notice-board.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-01-25

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00031