CVE-2021-24558 (GCVE-0-2021-24558)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-23 11:10 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI?
Title
Project Status <= 1.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The pspin_duplicate_post_save_as_new_post function of the Project Status WordPress plugin through 1.6 does not sanitise, validate or escape the post GET parameter passed to it before outputting it in an error message when the related post does not exist, leading to a reflected XSS issue
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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Affected:
1.6 , ≤ 1.6
(custom)
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