CVE-2021-24545

Summary

The WP HTML Author Bio WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not sanitise the HTML allowed in the Bio of users, allowing them to use malicious JavaScript code, which will be executed when anyone visit a post in the frontend made by such user. As a result, user with a role as low as author could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against users, which could potentially lead to privilege escalation when an admin view the related post/s.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
UnknownWP HTML Author Bio1.2.0 <= 1.2.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79: CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

References