CVE-2021-24298 (GCVE-0-2021-24298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-24 10:58 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:28
VLAI
Title
Simple Giveaways < 2.36.2 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The method and share GET parameters of the Giveaway pages were not sanitised, validated or escaped before being output back in the pages, thus leading to reflected XSS
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
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 1889 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Credits
Shreya Pohekar of Codevigilant Project
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