CVE-2021-24482

CVE-2021-24482: Related Posts for WordPress <= 2.0.4 - Authenticated Stored XSS & XFS

Vendor Unknown

Product Related Posts for WordPress

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published July 19, 2021

Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Related Posts for WordPress plugin through 2.0.4 does not sanitise its heading_text and CSS settings, allowing high privilege users (admin) to set XSS payloads in them, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 19, 2021 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24482 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html AskarLabs — CWE-79 write-up Cross-Site Scripting

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