Vulnerability · Published Aug 2, 2021 · Assigned by WPScan

CVE-2021-24503Popular Brand SVG Icons - Simple Icons < 2.7.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity cross-site scripting in Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons from Unknown. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 50% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.4Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 49.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons WordPress plugin before 2.7.8 does not sanitise or validate some of its shortcode parameters, such as "color", "size" or "class", allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to set Cross-Site payload in them. A post made by a contributor would still have to be approved by an admin to have the XSS triggered in the frontend, however, higher privilege users, such as editor could exploit this without the need of approval, and even when the blog disallows the unfiltered_html capability.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Unknown Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons 2.7.8 – before 2.7.8

Weakness: CWE-79

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