CVE-2021-24900 Ninja Tables < 4.1.8 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Cross-Site Scripting

What is CVE-2021-24900?

CVE-2021-24900 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Ninja Tables – Best WP DataTables Plugin for WordPress, published on 1 Feb 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Ninja Tables WordPress plugin before 4.1.8 does not sanitise and escape some of its table fields, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24900?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wpmanageninja Ninja Tables.

How do I fix CVE-2021-24900?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24900 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-2021-24900 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24900 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Ninja Tables – Best WP DataTables Plugin for WordPress

• CVE-2025-2940 Ninja Tables – Easy Data Table Builder <= 5.0.18 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery High 7.2
• CVE-2024-7304 Cross-site scripting in Ninja Tables – Easy Data Table Builder Medium 6.4
• CVE-2024-12772 Ninja Tables < 5.0.17 - Admin+ Stored XSS Medium 6.1
• CVE-2022-47137 WordPress Ninja Tables Plugin <= 4.3.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Medium 5.9
• CVE-2025-2939 Deserialization in Ninja Tables – Easy Data Table Builder Medium 5.6

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-j2rw-94m6-fg6j.