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CVE-2024-8968· NVD / CVE Program· CNA WPScan

MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Text Color

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 18/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.42% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. A user must open a link or visit a page. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons 9.8.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons 9.8.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

The WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons WordPress plugin before 9.8.1 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup).

MediumCVSS 4.7 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 20, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.4% · 35th percentile

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Action score

18

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
18 / 40 · 4.7 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.4%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
maxfoundrymaxbuttons

Affected versions

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

  • maxfoundry maxbuttonsbefore 9.8.1

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 WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons

    • before 9.8.1affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2022-36346WordPress MaxButtons plugin <= 9.2 - Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2014-125092MaxButtons Plugin maxbuttons-button.php maxbuttons_strip_px cross site scripting
    24Monitor
  • CVE-2025-39444WordPress MaxButtons plugin <= 9.8.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    23Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-3026Jul 13, 2024 · WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons < 9.7.8 - Editor+ Stored XSS
    21Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-6499Aug 24, 2024 · WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.8 - Full Path Disclosure
    21Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-10555Dec 20, 2024 · MaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Button Width
    19Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Unknown WordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons9.8.1Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

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

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2025-39444118 days apartWordPress MaxButtons plugin <= 9.8.3 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability
    23Monitor
  • CVE-2024-3026160 days apartWordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons < 9.7.8 - Editor+ Stored XSS
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-7029319 days apartWordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.6 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via shortcode
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2023-36503514 days apartWordPress MaxButtons Plugin <= 9.5.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2024-105550 days apartMaxButtons < 9.8.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS via Button Width
    19Monitor
  • CVE-2023-6594347 days apartWordPress Button Plugin MaxButtons <= 9.7.4 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
    19Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd-secondary

Root cause

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

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

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

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.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.

ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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