CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24444
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-02
- 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 TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.
Affected configurations
• taxopress taxopress (< 3.0.7.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164604/WordPress-TaxoPress-3.0.7.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164604/WordPress-TaxoPress-3.0.7.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b Exploit, Third Party Advisory