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CVE-2021-39328 (GCVE-0-2021-39328)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-21 19:38 – Updated: 2025-02-14 17:54
VLAI
Title
Simple Job Board <= 2.9.4 Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Simple Job Board WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient escaping on the $job_board_privacy_policy_label variable echo'd out via the ~/admin/settings/class-simple-job-board-settings-privacy.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 2.9.4. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-14 17:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Simple Job Board Simple Job Board Affected: 2.9.4 , ≤ 2.9.4 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-10-21 00:00
Credits
Thinkland Security Team
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