CVE-2021-24296 WP Customer Reviews < 3.5.6 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Administrators can inject malicious scripts into WP Customer Reviews settings, leading to stored XSS attacks on review pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-24296?
CVE-2021-24296 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Go Web Solutions WP Customer Reviews, published on 24 May 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The WP Customer Reviews WordPress plugin before 3.5.6 did not sanitise some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as administrators to set XSS payloads in them which will then be triggered in pages where reviews are enabled
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24296?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Gowebsolutions Wp Customer Reviews.
How do I fix CVE-2021-24296?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24296 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-2021-24296 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24296 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Go Web Solutions WP Customer Reviews
- CVE-2016-10902 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
- CVE-2021-24135 WP Customer Reviews < 3.4.3 - Multiple Unauthenticated and Low Priv Authenticated Stored XSS
- CVE-2016-10901 Cross-site scripting in n/a
- CVE-2024-1849 WP Customer Reviews < 3.7.1 - Malicious Redirect via HTTP-EQUIV Injection
- CVE-2023-4648 WP Customer Reviews <= 3.6.6 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r7g7-h9q3-437j.