Name: CVE-2021-24517: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-09-06T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-24517, CWE-79, CVSS 5.4, EPSS 0.00624

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.4
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin Plugin	—	Update stop-spammer-registrations-plugin plugin to version 2021.18, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Aug 9, 2021

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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