Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This is a stored cross-site scripting issue in the WordPress Threepress plugin. A contributor-level user or compromised account could place malicious script through the plugin shortcode, causing it to run when someone views the affected page. Business impact is mainly account misuse, visitor trust, and possible admin-session exposure.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate-priority WordPress hygiene issue. Prioritize sites with many content contributors, public registration, weak account controls, or administrator users likely to view contributed content.
Technical view
Threepress versions up to and including 1.7.1 insufficiently sanitize and escape user-controlled shortcode attributes. The issue is CWE-79 stored XSS with CVSS 6.4, requiring low-privileged authenticated access and affecting confidentiality and integrity across scope.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most likely on WordPress sites running Threepress 1.7.1 or earlier where Contributor-level users can submit content, or where such accounts may be compromised.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or cited active exploitation. Abuse requires authenticated Contributor-or-higher access, then execution occurs when a user visits the injected page.
Researcher notes
Evidence identifies the vulnerable surface as the threepress shortcode attributes and points to WordPress plugin source for versions 1.7.1 and 1.7.2. The bundle does not provide exploit telemetry, broad campaign evidence, or detailed remediation text beyond affected-version boundaries.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Threepress beyond 1.7.1, preferably to the current available release.
- Review vendor and Wordfence guidance for fixed-version confirmation.
- Restrict Contributor and higher roles to trusted accounts only.
- Audit recent posts or pages using the threepress shortcode.
- Remove suspicious shortcode attributes or untrusted contributed content.
Validation and detection
- Inventory WordPress sites for the Threepress plugin version.
- Confirm no installation is running Threepress 1.7.1 or earlier.
- Review users with Contributor, Author, Editor, or Administrator roles.
- Inspect content containing the threepress shortcode for unexpected attributes.
- Check web application logs for suspicious edits by low-privileged users.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Conservative CVE-to-ATT&CK context
These mappings and lookup hints may be relevant to the vulnerability behavior, CWE, affected product, or exposure path. Glexia-inferred context is not an official MITRE, ATT&CK, CWE, or CVE Program mapping.
ATT&CK lookup starting points
Use these exact CWE pages and searches to review the Glexia ATT&CK library from this CVE's weakness and description context.
CWE-79: User-session and phishing behavior lookup
Client-side and session-facing weaknesses should be reviewed alongside initial-access and user-execution behaviors. Open the exact CWE lookup page first, then review the ATT&CK searches from that MITRE weakness context. This is a Glexia lookup hint, not an official ATT&CK mapping.
Open ATT&CK lookupCVE-2024-13395 mapping review
Open the CVE-to-ATT&CK bridge for reviewed, inferred, or future official mappings tied to this CVE.
Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.4 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CNA and ADP enrichment extracted from CVE v5
These fields come from the CVE record and ADP containers, not from Glexia's Take. They preserve time-varying source decisions such as CISA SSVC, KEV status, CVSS metrics, and provider references.
CVSS vector scores
1 official scoreWe collect every scored CVSS vector available in the official CNA and ADP containers. When more than one version is present, the table keeps the source vectors side by side instead of collapsing them into the highest score.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N3.12.7Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.4MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e7021881-2ce9-4c8b-bcfa-6886cce649d9?source=cveCVE reference
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/threepress/tags/1.7.1/threepress.phpCVE reference
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/threepress/tags/1.7.2/threepress.php#L263CVE reference
Products and packages named in the record
CWE details
CWE links open Glexia weakness intelligence pages with official CWE context, developer remediation guidance, and related CVE mappings.
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.