BrooklynWordPress extension · Unitedthemes
CVE-2024-24927
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 UnitedThemes Brooklyn | Creative Multi-Purpose Responsive WordPress Theme allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Brooklyn | Creative Multi-Purpose Responsive WordPress Theme: from n/a through 4.9.7.6.
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 confidenceReflected XSS vulnerability in the UnitedThemes Brooklyn WordPress theme allows remote attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code via unsanitized input parameters that are reflected back in generated web pages without proper output encoding.
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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
BrooklynWordPress extension
<= 4.9.7.6CVSS 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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Confirm Brooklyn theme is installedLocate the theme directory in wp-content/themes/brooklyn/ and verify the theme exists on the WordPress siteAffected if The Brooklyn theme directory is present in the WordPress themes folder
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Identify installed Brooklyn theme versionOpen wp-content/themes/brooklyn/style.css and locate the 'Version:' header in the theme comment block at the top of the fileAffected if The version listed is 4.9.7.6 or lower
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Check if vulnerable parameters are usedSearch PHP files in the theme directory for $_GET or $_POST superglobals being echoed or printed without sanitization functions such as esc_html(), esc_attr(), or sanitize_text_field()Affected if User-supplied parameters from $_GET or $_POST are reflected in page output without proper output encoding
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Examine theme templates for reflected inputReview common template files (header.php, footer.php, index.php, and any files handling query parameters) to identify where URL parameters are directly output into HTMLAffected if The theme reflects URL parameters directly into HTML without encoding
A user is affected if the Brooklyn theme version is 4.9.7.6 or lower and the theme reflects unsanitized user input parameters into generated web pages.
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 Brooklyn theme to the latest version beyond 4.9.7.6 which should contain the XSS patch, or implement proper input validation and output encoding on the vulnerable parameters in the theme code.
Fix this in Brooklyn
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Implementation6.0 h
- Testing3.0 h
- Review / QA2.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
Primary sourcesPractitioner notes
ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2024-24927 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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