CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-24841
4.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-17
- 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 Helpful WordPress plugin before 4.4.59 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Affected configurations
• helpful project helpful (< 4.4.59)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://mikadmin.fr/tech/XSS-Stored-Helpful-5b10bc7f40ab319f9797eb4abad4f420660.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/55d11acf-8c47-40da-be47-24f74fd7566e Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://mikadmin.fr/tech/XSS-Stored-Helpful-5b10bc7f40ab319f9797eb4abad4f420660.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/55d11acf-8c47-40da-be47-24f74fd7566e Exploit, Third Party Advisory