CVE-2021-24533

Maintenance <= 4.02 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

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

4.8

CVSS Score

4.8

CVSS Score

medium

Severity

4.03

Patched in

916d

Time to patch

Description

The Maintenance WordPress plugin before 4.03 does not sanitise or escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to se Cross-Site Scripting payload in them (even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed), which will be triggered in the frontend

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Changed

Low

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<4.03

PublishedJuly 21, 2021

Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024

Affected pluginmaintenance

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c0dfa035-78fe-426f-a018-7bb2f22f0dd7?source=api-prod

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