Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Sep 28, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-8189
CVE-2024-8189
Description
The WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘wpmt_menu_name’ parameter in all versions up to, and including, 0.1.17 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with administrator-level access, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page. This only affects multi-site installations and installations where unfiltered_html has been disabled.
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Affected products
3<=0.1.17+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <=0.1.17
- (no CPE)
- thangnv27/WP MultiTasking – WP Utilitiesv5Range: 0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3158305/nvdPatch
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/0c976e5a-2f6c-4632-99a7-a512b3dd38e6nvdThird Party Advisory
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-multitasking/trunk/wp-multitasking.phpnvdProduct
- plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-multitasking/trunk/wp-multitasking.phpnvdProduct
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