Description
The Author Bio Box WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and sanitization via several parameters found in the ~/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.3.1. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.
Published: 2021-10-15
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

Uninstall plugin from WordPress site.

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-25710 The Author Bio Box WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and sanitization via several parameters found in the ~/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.3.1. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.
History

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Author Bio Box Project Author Bio Box
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-14T17:56:10.077Z

Reserved: 2021-08-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-39349

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T02:06:42.484Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-15T13:15:08.070

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:19:22.497

Link: CVE-2021-39349

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses