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CVE-2021-24450: 
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before version 3.1.8 contained a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by Vaibhav Koli and was publicly disclosed on June 28, 2021 (WPScan).

Technical details

The vulnerability stems from improper sanitization and escaping of certain settings before saving and outputting them back to the page. This security flaw allows high-privilege users, such as administrators, to set JavaScript payloads even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 4.8 (medium) and is classified as CWE-79 (WPScan).

Impact

The vulnerability allows authenticated users with high privileges to store and execute JavaScript code on the affected WordPress sites. This could potentially lead to various malicious activities through the execution of arbitrary JavaScript code in users' browsers (WPScan).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 3.1.8 of the ProfilePress plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the security risk (WPScan).

Additional resources

Source: This report was generated using AI

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