ProfilePress < 3.1.8 - Authenticated Stored XSS
CVE-2021-24450

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Wordpress
Status
User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – Profilepress (formerly WP User Avatar)
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 August 2021

Summary

The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 did not sanitise or escape some of its settings before saving them and outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set JavaScript payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Affected Version(s)

User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) 3.1.8

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a8625579-fe8f-4bc1-a641-...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
Low
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Vaibhav Koli
.