CVE-2021-24245
Published May 6, 2021
Last updated 3 years ago
Overview
- Description
- The Stop Spammers WordPress plugin before 2021.9 did not escape user input when blocking requests (such as matching a spam word), outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 6.1
- Impact score
- 2.7
- Exploitability score
- 2.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
- contact@wpscan.com
- CWE-79
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:trumani:stop_spammers:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "58F6E4AB-287C-44C6-BEC1-C46E260BE1DA",
"versionEndExcluding": "2021.9"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]