CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24308
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.
Affected configurations
• lifterlms lifterlms (< 4.21.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082 Exploit, Third Party Advisory