CVE-2024-4455

HIGH EXPLOITED NUCLEI

YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search <2.4.0 - XSS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2024-4455 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV). A Nuclei detection template is also available.

Description

The YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘item’ parameter in versions up to, and including, 2.4.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Nuclei Templates (1)

YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search <= 2.4.0 - Cross-Site Scripting
HIGHVERIFIEDby Shivam Kamboj

References (3)

Core 3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0101
EPSS Percentile 58.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2024-05-24
CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
yithemes/YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search < 2.4.0
yithemes/yith_woocommerce_ajax_search < 2.4.1
Published May 24, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026