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WP MultiTasking — WP Utilities <= 0.1.17 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2024-8189Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤0.1.17Update to 0.1.18 or newer

All remediation steps
Severity
Medium4.4
CVSS
4.4
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:H Attack complexity
High
PR:H Privileges required
High
UI:N User interaction
None
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
Unknown
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed

Am I affected?

WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities wp-multitasking

  1. Affected≤ 0.1.17
  2. Patched in0.1.18

Update to 0.1.18 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 0.1.17. Version 0.1.18 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.

What to do

  1. Update to version 0.1.18, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Michelle Porter.

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.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities

All 8
More vulnerabilities in WP MultiTasking – WP Utilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Permalink Suffix Update
≤0.1.12No patch available
CVE-2024-6860
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Header/Footer/Body Script Update
≤0.1.12No patch available
CVE-2024-6857
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Exit Popup Update
≤0.1.12No patch available
CVE-2024-6855
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to SMTP Settings Update
≤0.1.12No patch available
CVE-2024-6856
Medium4.3Cross-Site Request Forgery to Welcome Popup Update
≤0.1.12No patch available
CVE-2024-6853

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
Other Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
High7.2Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Comment User-Agent HeaderCVE-2026-120688
Critical9.8Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form SubmissionCVE-2026-125055
Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' ParameterCVE-2026-119077
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Sensitive Information Exposure in 'search' Parameter
Customer Reviews for WooCommerce≤5.127.0Update to 5.128.0
CVE-2026-121518

Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 4.4

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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