CVE-2024-4090 | My Sticky Bar < 2.7.2 - Admin+ Stored XSS

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The Floating Notification Bar, Sticky Menu on Scroll, Announcement Banner, and Sticky Header for Any WordPress plugin before 2.7.2 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when unfiltered_html is disallowed

Published: 2024-08-01 Last update: 2025-06-10 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Analyzed，CVE State: published
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CVE-2024-4090 is rated Exploit Available (52.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.28%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2024-4090

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-4090

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 2025-12-21 0.21% 0.28% +0.08%
2 2025-10-08 0.11% 0.21% +0.10%
3 2025-09-09 — 0.11% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2024-4090

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.8 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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:H)
They need powerful rights—admin, root, or similar—before this pays off.
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.
 1.7 2.7 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2024-4090

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2024-4090

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
premio my_sticky_bar < 2.7.2 cpe:2.3:a:premio:my_sticky_bar:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2024-4090

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