Wolf Wordpress Posts Bulk Editor And Products Manager ProfessionalWordPress extension · Pluginus
CVE-2024-22159
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in realmag777 WOLF – WordPress Posts Bulk Editor and Manager Professional allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects WOLF – WordPress Posts Bulk Editor and Manager Professional: from n/a through 1.0.8.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceA reflected Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in the WOLF WordPress plugin (versions through 1.0.8). The plugin fails to properly sanitize user input before reflecting it back in web pages, allowing attackers to inject malicious scripts that execute in the context of a user's browser.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Wolf Wordpress Posts Bulk Editor And Products Manager ProfessionalWordPress extension
<= 1.0.8CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify WOLF plugin installationNavigate to WordPress admin dashboard > Plugins > Installed Plugins, or inspect the /wp-content/plugins/ directory for a folder named 'wolf' or similar.Affected if The WOLF plugin (Pluginus Wolf - Wordpress Posts Bulk Editor And Products Manager Professional) is present in the plugins directory.
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Check WOLF plugin versionIn WordPress admin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and locate the WOLF plugin to view its version number, or check the main plugin file (e.g., plugin-main-file.php) for the 'Version' header comment.Affected if The installed version is 1.0.8 or lower.
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Confirm plugin is activeIn WordPress admin > Plugins > Installed Plugins, verify the WOLF plugin shows as 'Active' rather than 'Inactive' or 'Network Active'.Affected if The plugin is currently active and handling requests.
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Identify reflected input pointsReview HTTP requests to the site and identify parameters that might be reflected in the response (such as search queries, filter parameters, or ID values). Use browser developer tools or a proxy to examine how user-supplied parameters are handled.Affected if Any user-supplied input is reflected back in the HTML response without proper encoding, indicating the XSS vulnerability is present and exploitable.
You are affected if the WOLF plugin version is 1.0.8 or lower, the plugin is active, and user-supplied input is reflected in responses without sanitization.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpdate the WOLF plugin to a version beyond 1.0.8 that includes proper input sanitization and output encoding for all user-supplied data.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-22159 in production — separate from our analysis above.
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