Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 30, 2025· Updated Apr 8, 2026

CVE-2024-12299

Description

The System Dashboard plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the Filename parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick an administrative user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Affected products

Bowo/System Dashboard
cpe:2.3:a:bowo:system_dashboard:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Range: <=2.8.15
WordPress/System Dashboardllm-fuzzy
Range: <=2.8.17
Package: https://wordpress.org/plugins/system-dashboard

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/993670b7-a3ea-497d-ad46-881bd47b9346nvdThird Party Advisory
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/system-dashboard/tags/2.8.15/admin/class-system-dashboard-admin.phpnvdProduct
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changesetnvd

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