PT-2021-16280 · WordPress · The Great Quotes

Vishal Mohan + 1 · Published 2021-10-25 · Updated 2021-10-27 · CVE-2021-24785

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The Great Quotes WordPress plugin version 1.0.0

Description: The issue concerns the lack of sanitization and escaping of the Quote and Author fields in the plugin's Quotes, potentially allowing high-privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks, even when the unfiltered html capability is disallowed.

Recommendations: For The Great Quotes WordPress plugin version 1.0.0, update to a version that properly sanitizes and escapes the Quote and Author fields to prevent Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-24785

Affected Products

The Great Quotes

References · 3

• 🔥 https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/3957056c-df25-41f7-ab0d-1d09222f2fa5 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24785 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24785 · Security Note