vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: simple-tags: CVE-2021-24444: 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
Jun 30, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Jun 24, 2025

Description

The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Solution

simple-tags-plugin-cve-2021-24444
Title
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