CVE-2021-24680 WP Travel Engine < 5.3.1 - Editor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2021-24680?

CVE-2021-24680 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown WP Travel Engine – Travel and Tour Booking Plugin, published on 3 Jan 2022. 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 WP Travel Engine WordPress plugin before 5.3.1 does not escape the Description field in the Trip Destination/Activities/Trip Type and Pricing Category pages, allowing users with a role as low as editor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24680?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wptravelengine Wp Travel Engine.

How do I fix CVE-2021-24680?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24680 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-2021-24680 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24680 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown WP Travel Engine – Travel and Tour Booking Plugin

• CVE-2024-30502 WordPress WP Travel Engine plugin <= 5.7.9 - Unauth. Blind SQL Injection vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2025-30870 WordPress WP Travel Engine plugin <= 6.3.5 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability High 8.1
• CVE-2024-30504 WordPress WP Travel Engine plugin <= 5.7.9 - SQL Injection vulnerability High 7.6
• CVE-2025-5282 WP Travel Engine <= 6.5.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Deletion High 7.5
• CVE-2025-30871 WordPress WP Travel Engine plugin <= 6.3.5 - Local File Inclusion vulnerability High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-3v2q-4w56-hr98.