CVE-2021-24250 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2021-24250?

CVE-2021-24250 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress, published on 5 May 2021. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress WordPress plugin before 5.11.2 suffered from lack of sanitisation in the label of the Form Fields, leading to Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues across various pages of the plugin.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24250?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Strategy11 Business Directory Plugin - Easy Listing Directories.

How do I fix CVE-2021-24250?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24250 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2021-24250 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24250 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress

• CVE-2021-24178 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Arbitrary Add/Edit/Delete Form Field to Stored XSS High 8.8
• CVE-2021-24179 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11 - Arbitrary File Upload to RCE High 8.8
• CVE-2021-24248 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.1 - Authenticated PHP4 Upload to RCE High 7.2
• CVE-2021-24249 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Arbitrary Listing Export Medium 6.5
• CVE-2021-24251 Business Directory Plugin < 5.11.2 - Arbitrary Payment History Update Medium 4.3

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-5wm3-f8mj-hp67.