CVE-2024-13878: Jakehelbig Spotbot

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SpotBot WordPress plugin through 0.1.8 does not sanitise and escape a parameter before outputting it back in the page, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting which could be used against high privilege users such as admin.

Affected products

• Jakehelbig Spotbot: up to and including 0.1.8

Published 2025-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.