CVE-2021-24308

LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin <= 4.21.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

mediumImproper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

5.4

CVSS Score

5.4

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

4.21.1

Patched in

988d

Time to patch

Description

The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<4.21.1

PublishedMay 10, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginlifterlms

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/86b54c46-a637-4fc4-8d48-a02383c9814b?source=api-prod

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