CVE-2021-24745 (GCVE-0-2021-24745)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-29 08:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI?
Title
About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
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CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown About Author Box Affected: 1.0.2 , < 1.0.2 (custom)
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Credits
Francesco Carlucci
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