CVE-2021-24351 (GCVE-0-2021-24351)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-14 13:37 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28
VLAI
Title
The Plus Addons for Elementor < 4.1.12 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The theplus_more_post AJAX action of The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder WordPress plugin before 4.1.12 did not properly sanitise some of its fields, leading to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (exploitable on both unauthenticated and authenticated users)
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown The Plus Addons for Elementor Page Builder Affected: 4.1.12 , < 4.1.12 (custom)
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Credits
Nicolas Verdier from TEHTRIS
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