CVE-2021-24745 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Published: 2021-11-29

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Unknown

About Author Box

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`1.0.2`	affected	< 1.0.2

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wpkube:about_author_box:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-11657	The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00197.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a965aeca-d8f9-4070-aa0d-9c9b95493dda

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Wpkube About Author Box

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2021-11-29T08:25:29.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:42:16.657Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-24745

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-11-29T09:15:07.140

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:53:40.787

Link: CVE-2021-24745

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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