WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap <= 2.8 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

6.1
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2024-32574
CVSS 6.1 (Medium)
Publicly Published April 16, 2024
Last Updated April 24, 2024
Researcher CatFather

Description

The WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.8 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 a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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Vulnerability Details for WP Simple HTML Sitemap

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-simple-html-sitemap (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.9, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8
Patched Version
  • 2.9

Recent vulnerabilities in WP Simple HTML Sitemap

# Title CVE ID CVSS Researchers Date
1 Simple HTML Sitemap <= 3.8 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2026-39654 6.4 Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada) February 15, 2026
2 WP Simple HTML Sitemap <= 3.5 - Missing Authorization CVE-2025-31822 5.3 Kévin Mosbahi (Mika) April 1, 2025
3 WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap <= 3.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection CVE-2024-7385 9.1 Nguyễn Trung Kiên September 24, 2024
4 WP Simple HTML Sitemap <= 2.7 - Missing Authorization CVE-2023-49850 5.3 Abdi Pranata December 7, 2023
5 WP Simple HTML Sitemap <= 2.2 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via id CVE-2023-46627 6.1 Le Ngoc Anh October 25, 2023
6 WP Simple HTML Sitemap <= 2.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting CVE-2023-45067 6.4 deokhunKim October 3, 2023

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