CVE-2021-24964

LiteSpeed Cache <= 4.4.3 - Authorization Bypass

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
6.5
CVSS Score
6.5
CVSS Score
medium
Severity
4.4.4
Patched in
784d
Time to patch

Description

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Low
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions>=1.0.15 <=4.4.3
PublishedNovember 30, 2021
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginlitespeed-cache

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