CVE-2024-1985 | Simple Membership <= 4.4.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Self-Based Cross-Site Scripting

The Simple Membership plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'Display Name' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 4.4.2 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. This vulnerability requires social engineering to successfully exploit, and the impact would be very limited due to the attacker requiring a user to login as the user with the injected payload for execution.

Published: 2024-03-13 Last update: 2026-04-08 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-1985 is rated Moderate Risk (45.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.29%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-1985

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 7.07% 3.29% -3.78%
2 2025-11-18 3.29% 7.07% +3.78%
3 2025-08-02 — 3.29% —

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-1985

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.7 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:H)
Even with access, the exploit needs extra luck, timing, or a fussy environment to actually work.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.6 2.7 [email protected]
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-1985

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-1985

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
simple-membership-plugin simple_membership < 4.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:simple-membership-plugin:simple_membership:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2024-1985

URL Tags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L103 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L112 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L121 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L130 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L139 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L157 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L85 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-membership/trunk/views/edit-v2.php#L95 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3045036%40simple-membership%2Ftrunk&old=3021218%40simple-membership%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail= Patch
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8a6ca886-de4c-4d45-a934-3e90378e7eb3?source=cve Third Party Advisory
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