Name: CVE-2021-24592: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-24592, CWE-79, CVSS 4.8, EPSS 0.00617

The Sitewide Notice WP WordPress plugin before 2.3 does not sanitise some of its settings before outputting them in frontend pages, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 4.8
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Sitewide Notice Wp Plugin	—	Update sitewide-notice-wp plugin to version 2.3, or a newer patched version	May 15, 2025	Aug 2, 2021

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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