CVE-2021-24517
Stop Spammers Security <= 2021.17 - Authenticated (Admin+) 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
2021.18
Patched in
897d
Time to patch
Description
The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
CVSS Vector Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NAttack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
High
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Low
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Technical Details
Affected versions
<2021.18PublishedAugust 9, 2021
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginstop-spammer-registrations-plugin
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