Vulnerability · Published Aug 2, 2021 · Assigned by WPScan

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

Medium 4.8

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 51% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)4.8Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.7%top 48.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar)	3.1.8 – before 3.1.8

Weakness: CWE-79

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a8625579-fe8f-4bc1-a641-0e26ad141c92 x_refsource_MISC