# CVE-2021-24519: Vik Rent Car < 1.1.10 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

> Authenticated admins can inject malicious scripts via the Characteristic field, leading to stored XSS in the Vik Rent Car WordPress plugin.

- **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:** 16 Aug 2021
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5vqg-9g8h-vwmq

## What is CVE-2021-24519?

CVE-2021-24519 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown VikRentCar Car Rental Management System, published on 16 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 VikRentCar Car Rental Management System WordPress plugin before 1.1.10 does not sanitise the 'Text Next to Icon' field when adding or editing a Characteristic, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payload in it, 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-2021-24519?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Vikwp Car Rental Management System.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24519?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24519 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24519 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24519 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24519 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24519 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown VikRentCar Car Rental Management System, published on 16 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-2021-24519 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown VikRentCar Car Rental Management System. 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-2021-24519/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24519/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24519
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24519
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24519

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24519/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.