Clinked Client Portal <= 1.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
The Clinked Client Portal plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'clinked-login-button' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 1.9 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-12524
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-82gc-5r4p-79v3
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/417b9dfe-2571-4816-af55-c7cb7dfa62c6?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/clinked-client-portal/trunk/clinked-wordpress-plugin.php#L87
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3229331%40clinked-client-portal&new=3229331%40clinked-client-portal&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More Clinked vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-23680 WordPress Clinked Client Portal Plugin <= 1.10 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2024-12524 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-12524 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-82gc-5r4p-79v3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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