Advanced WordPress Backgrounds

Advanced WordPress Backgrounds has one disclosed vulnerability in the WordSec catalog, all reported in 2024; it is fixed as of September 2026. Their average CVSS score is 6.4, and the most serious one scores 6.4 out of 10.

The most common weakness is Cross-Site Scripting, behind 1 of the records (100%).

The one issue recorded for Advanced WordPress Backgrounds has a vendor fix available, so running the current release closes it.

All of these findings were reported by Webbernaut. Advanced WordPress Backgrounds is installed on roughly 30,000 WordPress sites, so each unpatched flaw has a wide blast radius. The current release is tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Strategic Overview

Avg CVSSMedium

6.4/ 10

Patch Coverage100%

Open

Fixed

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Highest severity on recordCVSS 6.4CVE-2024-8045

Advanced WordPress Backgrounds <= 1.12.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via imageTag Parameter

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Vulnerability Records

1 records


2024-09-10 18:48	Advanced WordPress Backgrounds <= 1.12.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via imageTag Parameter Advanced WordPress Backgrounds <= 1.12.3	`CVE-2024-8045`	6.4 Medium	Webbernaut	Yes

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Latestv1.13.0

Advanced WordPress Backgrounds

Author

4.8(44)

96/100

Last Updated

2026-08-26 (17d ago)

Active Installs

30,000+

Downloads

883,945

Requires WP

6.2+

Requires PHP

7.4+

Tested up to

WP 7.1

Created

2017-07-24 (9y ago)

Parallax, Image and Video Backgrounds Plugin For WordPress ★★★★★ Create any type of backgrounds using advanced block settings. We created Advanced WordPress Backgrounds plugin to insert the Youtube and Image Parallax backgrounds with a few clicks on block sites of our clients. See Live Demo | Documentation | GitHub Features Background Types: Color Image Post Featured Image Pattern images Self Hosted Video Youtube / Vimeo Video Parallax options powered by high performance JavaScript plugin Jarallax Custom speed option Enable / Disable for mobile devices option Scroll effect Opacity effect Scale effect Scroll + Opacity effect Scroll + Scale effect Mouse Parallax Custom video start & end time srcset supported (i.e. Google love it) Overlay color with transparency options Gutenberg block supported WPBakery Page Builder supported (extended row and col options + separate shortcode) Custom CSS offsets (paddings + margins)

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