CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24332
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 Autoptimize WordPress plugin before 2.8.4 was missing proper escaping and sanitisation in some of its settings, allowing high privilege users to set XSS payloads in them, leading to stored Cross-Site Scripting issues
Affected configurations
• autoptimize autoptimize (< 2.8.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-04-01%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-Autoptimize-WordPress-Plugin-v2.8.3.txt m0ze.ru
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6678e064-ce21-4bb2-8c50-061073fb22fb Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://m0ze.ru/vulnerability/%5B2021-04-01%5D-%5BWordPress%5D-%5BCWE-79%5D-Autoptimize-WordPress-Plugin-v2.8.3.txt m0ze.ru
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/6678e064-ce21-4bb2-8c50-061073fb22fb Exploit, Third Party Advisory