VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-24245

CVSS score6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS probability5.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-05-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Stop Spammers WordPress plugin before 2021.9 did not escape user input when blocking requests (such as matching a spam word), outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Weakness classification

  • contact@wpscan.com: CWE-79

Primary references