{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24745 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24745 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24745 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24745 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Unknown About Author Box. 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-2021-24745/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24745/index.md)","id":"CVE-2021-24745","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24745/index.md","name":"CVE-2021-24745","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-j9w2-qr3r-xr77"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Contributors can inject malicious scripts via social profile fields in the About Author Box plugin, potentially compromising other users.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"xss"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"WPScan","cpe":[{"product":"about_author_box","vendor":"wpkube"}],"cvss":{"score":5.4,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"About Author Box \u003c 1.0.2 - Contributor+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2021-24745","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"xss","year":"2021"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Sassy Social Share \u003c 3.3.40 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2021-24746"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"WordPress Contact Forms by Cimatti \u003c 1.4.12 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2021-24744"},"products":["About Author Box"],"published":"2021-11-29","related":[],"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)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-03","vendors":["Unknown"]},"summary":"Contributors can inject malicious scripts via social profile fields in the About Author Box plugin, potentially compromising other users.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24745/"}