CVE-2021-4222 (GCVE-0-2021-4222)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-28 09:06 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:16
VLAI
Title
WP Paginate < 2.1.4 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The WP-Paginate WordPress plugin before 2.1.4 does not sanitise and escape its preset settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 WP-Paginate Affected: 2.1.4 , < 2.1.4 (custom)
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Credits
Park Won Seok
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