CVE-2024-8239: Squirrly Starbox

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Starbox WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 does not properly render social media profiles URLs in certain contexts, like the malicious user's profile or pages where the starbox shortcode is used, which may be abused by users with at least the contributor role to conduct Stored XSS attacks.

Affected products

• Squirrly Starbox: before 3.5.3 (fixed in 3.5.3)

Published 2024-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.