CVE-2021-24366 (GCVE-0-2021-24366)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-21 19:18 – Updated: 2025-05-05 16:54
VLAI?
Title
Admin Columns Free < 4.3 & Pro < 5.5.1 - Admin+ Stored XSS in Label
Summary
The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown Admin Columns Affected: 3.0 , < 4.3 (semver)
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Credits
Daniel Elkabes of WhiteSource WPScan
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