🛡️ CVE-2024-6307 on Debian — wordpress

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

WordPress Core is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the HTML API in various versions prior to 6.5.5 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on URLs. 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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-6307 as tracked by Debian, for the package wordpress. The fix is available in version 6.5.5+dfsg1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-6307 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wordpress (fixed in 6.5.5+dfsg1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 June 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-6307 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-06-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wordpress — 6.5.5+dfsg1-1

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