{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24444 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24444 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2021-24444 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories, published on 2 Aug 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24444 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2021-24444 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories, published on 2 Aug 2021. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24444 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Unknown TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24444/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24444/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-24444","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24444/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-24444","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-8c7r-h373-6jrj"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"High-privilege users can inject JavaScript into taxonomy descriptions, leading to stored XSS attacks against other users.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[{"product":"taxopress","vendor":"taxopress"}],"cvss":{"score":4.8,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-79","name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation"}],"description":"The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2021-10-25","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2021-10-25","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"50442","stars":null,"title":"WordPress Plugin TaxoPress 3.0.7.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (Authenticated)"}],"tier":"poc_unverified"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"TaxoPress \u003c 3.0.7.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2021-24444","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"My Site Audit \u003c= 1.2.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)","id":"CVE-2021-24445"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Youzify \u003c 1.0.7 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Biography","id":"CVE-2021-24443"},"products":["TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories"],"published":"2021-08-02","related":[{"cvss_score":6.5,"headline":"Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI \u003c= 3.40.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2025-13359","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-03"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"TaxoPress \u003c= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-2168","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-19"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"TaxoPress \u003c= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-2169","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-19"},{"cvss_score":5.5,"headline":"TaxoPress \u003c= 3.6.4 - Authenticated (Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2023-2170","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-19"},{"cvss_score":4.3,"headline":"Missing authorization in Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI","id":"CVE-2025-13354","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-12-03"},{"cvss_score":3.5,"headline":"AI Autotagger \u003c 3.30.0 - Admin+ Stored XSS","id":"CVE-2025-0627","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-04-28"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-03","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"High-privilege users can inject JavaScript into taxonomy descriptions, leading to stored XSS attacks against other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24444/"}