Vulnerability Details : CVE-2021-24450
Potential exploit
The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 did not sanitise or escape some of its settings before saving them and outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set JavaScript payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue
Vulnerability category: Cross site scripting (XSS)
Products affected by CVE-2021-24450
- cpe:2.3:a:properfraction:profilepress:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-24450
0.26%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 46 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2021-24450
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
3.5
|
LOW | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
6.8
|
2.9
|
NIST | |
|
4.8
|
MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
1.7
|
2.7
|
NIST |
CWE ids for CVE-2021-24450
-
The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.Assigned by: contact@wpscan.com (Primary)
References for CVE-2021-24450
-
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a8625579-fe8f-4bc1-a641-0e26ad141c92
Attention Required! | CloudflareExploit;Third Party Advisory
Jump to