CVE-2021-24988 (GCVE-0-2021-24988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-27 10:33 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:49
VLAI
Title
WP RSS Aggregator < 4.19.3 - Subscriber+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.19.3 does not sanitise and escape data before outputting it in the System Info admin dashboard, which could lead to a Stored XSS issue due to the wprss_dismiss_addon_notice AJAX action missing authorisation and CSRF checks, allowing any authenticated users, such as subscriber to call it and set a malicious payload in the addon parameter.
Severity
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Krzysztof Zając
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