CVE-2021-24964 (GCVE-0-2021-24964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-03 12:49 – Updated: 2025-05-22 18:39
VLAI?
Summary
The LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin before 4.4.4 does not properly verify that requests are coming from QUIC.cloud servers, allowing attackers to make requests to certain endpoints by using a specific X-Forwarded-For header value. In addition, one of the endpoint could be used to set CSS code if a setting is enabled, which will then be output in some pages without being sanitised and escaped. Combining those two issues, an unauthenticated attacker could put Cross-Site Scripting payloads in pages visited by users.
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Unknown LiteSpeed Cache Affected: 4.4.4 , < 4.4.4 (custom)
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Credits
Emil Kylander
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