# CVE-2021-24974: Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce < 11.0.7 - Subscriber+ Settings Update to Stored XSS

> Authenticated users can inject malicious scripts via unsecured AJAX actions, leading to stored XSS in the admin dashboard.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Jan 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x3mr-p889-7f32

## What is CVE-2021-24974?

CVE-2021-24974 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce, published on 24 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 Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce WordPress plugin before 11.0.7 does not have authorisation and CSRF check in some of its AJAX actions, allowing any authenticated users to call then, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue (which will be triggered in the admin dashboard) due to the lack of escaping.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24974?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Adtribes Product Feed Pro for Woocommerce.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24974?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24974 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24974 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24974 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Unknown Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce

- [CVE-2024-32087](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-32087/): SQL injection in Product Feed on WooCommerce for Google (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2022-46793](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-46793/): WordPress Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce Plugin <= 12.4.4 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2022-0426](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0426/): Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce < 11.2.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24974 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24974 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Unknown Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce, published on 24 Jan 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24974 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Unknown Product Feed PRO for WooCommerce. 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-2021-24974/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24974/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24974
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24974
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24974

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24974/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.