Post Grid < 2.1.16 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via post_types

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• pickplugins post gridbefore 2.1.16

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Unknown Post Grid

  • 2.1.16 and later · before 2.1.16affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2024-11080Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks – ComboBlocks 2.2.85 - 2.3.32 - Unauthenticated Hook Injection
  39Monitor
• CVE-2024-8253Post Grid and Gutenberg Blocks 2.2.87 - 2.2.90 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
  38Monitor
• CVE-2020-35939PHP Object injection vulnerabilities in the Team Showcase plugin before 1.22.16 for WordPress allow remote authenticated attackers to inject
  36Monitor
• CVE-2020-35938PHP Object injection vulnerabilities in the Post Grid plugin before 2.0.73 for WordPress allow remote authenticated attackers to inject arbi
  36Monitor
• CVE-2024-13408Post Grid, Slider & Carousel Ultimate – with Shortcode, Gutenberg Block & Elementor Widget <= 1.6.10 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Local File Inclusion
  35Monitor
• CVE-2021-4450Post Grid <= 2.1.12 - Contributor+ SQL Injection
  35Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

1commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.