CVE-2021-24591

CVE-2021-24591: Highlight < 0.9.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown

Product Highlight

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published September 6, 2021

Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Highlight WordPress plugin before 0.9.3 does not sanitise its CustomCSS setting, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 6, 2021 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24591 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html