CVE-2021-24556 (GCVE-0-2021-24556)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-23 11:10 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI
Title
Email Subscriber <= 1.1 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The kento_email_subscriber_ajax AJAX action of the Email Subscriber WordPress plugin through 1.1, does not properly sanitise, validate and escape the submitted subscribe_email and subscribe_name POST parameters, inserting them in the DB and then outputting them back in the Subscriber list (/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=kes_campaign&page=kento_email_subscriber_list_settings), leading a Stored XSS issue.
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 Email Subscriber Affected: 1.1 , ≤ 1.1 (custom)
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Credits
Shreya Pohekar of Codevigilant Project
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