CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24366
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-21
- 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 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 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
Description
The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)
Affected configurations
• admincolumns admin columns (< 4.3)
• admincolumns admin columns (< 5.5.1)
References
- https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7 github.com
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7 github.com
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366 Exploit, Third Party Advisory