CVE-2021-24737 (GCVE-0-2021-24737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-11 10:45
Modified
2024-08-03 19:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
Summary
The Comments – wpDiscuz WordPress plugin through 7.3.0 does not properly sanitise or escape the Follow and Unfollow messages before outputting them in the page, which could allow high privilege users to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed.
References
contact@wpscan.comhttps://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f51a350c-c46d-4d52-b787-762283625d0bExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f51a350c-c46d-4d52-b787-762283625d0bExploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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