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Vulnerability record · CVE-2024-11974 · published 4 January 2025

CVE-2024-11974: Davidlingren media library assistant cross-site scripting vulnerability

DDavidlingren · Media Library Assistant

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘smc_settings_tab', 'unattachfixit-action', and 'woofixit-action’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.23 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

6.1 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.37% · top 71.6% CWE-79 · Cross-site scripting
6.1CVSS 3.1 base score
0.37%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The Media Library Assistant plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the ‘smc_settings_tab', 'unattachfixit-action', and 'woofixit-action’ parameters in all versions up to, and including, 3.23 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that execute if they can successfully trick a user into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/examples/plugins/mla-unattached-fixit.php#L177 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/examples/plugins/smart-media-categories/admin/i Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/media-library-assistant/trunk/examples/plugins/woofixit.php#L1391 Product
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3215759/ Patch
https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-library-assistant/#developers Release Notes
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/65f4e5e1-4c2e-4943-aa84-4caa61e14bc2?source=cve Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2024-11974), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.