# CVE-2021-24450: ProfilePress < 3.1.8 - Authenticated Stored XSS

> Authenticated admins can inject JavaScript into plugin settings, leading to stored XSS attacks against other users.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Aug 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7949-q2p4-p63q

## What is CVE-2021-24450?

CVE-2021-24450 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar), 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.

### Official description

The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 did not sanitise or escape some of its settings before saving them and outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set JavaScript payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24450?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Properfraction Profilepress.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24450 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar)

- [CVE-2021-34621](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34621/): ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-34622](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34622/): ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-34623](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34623/): ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Arbitrary File Upload in Image Uploader Component (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2021-34624](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-34624/): ProfilePress 3.0 - 3.1.3 - Arbitrary File Upload in File Uploader Component (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-41954](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-41954/): WordPress ProfilePress plugin <= 4.13.1 - Unauthenticated Limited Privilege Escalation vulnerability (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24450 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24450 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar), 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar). No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24450/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24450/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24450
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24450
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24450

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24450/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.