CVE-2021-24444

The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

CVSS v3.1

4.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

3.5 LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

2.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 82th percentile

Published

2021-08-02

Updated

2024-08-03

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50442

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2021-24443
• CVE-2021-24445
• CVE-2021-24442
• CVE-2021-24446
• CVE-2021-24441
• CVE-2021-24447