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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: one-user-avatar: CVE-2021-24672: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 20, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 4, 2026

Description

The One User Avatar WordPress plugin before 2.3.7 does not escape the link and target attributes of its shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Solution

one-user-avatar-plugin-cve-2021-24672
Title
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