CVE-2021-24595 (GCVE-0-2021-24595)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-18 13:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 19:35
VLAI
Title
WP Cookie Choice <= 1.1.0 - CSRF to Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Summary
The Wp Cookie Choice WordPress plugin through 1.1.0 is lacking any CSRF check when saving its options, and do not escape them when outputting them in attributes. As a result, an attacker could make a logged in admin change them to arbitrary values including XSS payloads via a CSRF attack.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Assigner
WPScan CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 44/100 over 2070 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Unknown Wp Cookie Choice Affected: 1.1.0 , ≤ 1.1.0 (custom)
guessed Create a notification for this product.
Credits
dc11
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