CVE-2021-24841

CVE-2021-24841: Helpful < 4.4.59 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Vendor Unknown

Product Helpful

Weakness CWE-79 · XSS

Published November 17, 2021

Last update August 3, 2024

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CVSS base score

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Helpful WordPress plugin before 4.4.59 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 17, 2021 CVE published

August 3, 2024 Record updated

External resources

03References

NVD — National Vulnerability Database https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24841 CWE — Common Weakness Enumeration https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html

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04Related CVE

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