CVE-2021-24745 About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Contributors can inject malicious scripts via social profile fields in the About Author Box plugin, potentially compromising other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-24745?
CVE-2021-24745 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown About Author Box, published on 29 Nov 2021. 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 About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24745?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Wpkube About Author Box.
How do I fix CVE-2021-24745?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24745 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-2021-24745 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24745 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-j9w2-qr3r-xr77.