CVE-2021-24768 (GCVE-0-2021-24768)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-29 08:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:42
VLAI?
Title
WP RSS Aggregator < 4.19.2 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.19.2 does not properly sanitise and escape the URL to Blacklist field, allowing malicious HTML to be inserted by high privilege users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, which could lead to Cross-Site Scripting issues.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown WP RSS Aggregator – News Feeds, Autoblogging, Youtube Video Feeds and More Affected: 4.19.2 , < 4.19.2 (custom)
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Credits
Huy Nguyen
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