CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-24544

5.4 MEDIUM Published 2021-10-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-10-25
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 Responsive WordPress Slider WordPress plugin through 2.2.0 does not sanitise and escape some of the Slider options, allowing Cross-Site Scripting payloads to be set in them. Furthermore, as by default any authenticated user is allowed to create Sliders (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slider-can-be-changed-from-any-user-even-subscriber/, such settings can be changed in the plugin's settings), this would allow user with a role as low as subscriber to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the slider list and could lead to privilege escalation by creating a rogue admin account for example.

Affected configurations

• motopress motopress-slider-lite (<= 2.2.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References