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WordPress Plugin: site-reviews: CVE-2021-24973: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

Dec 6, 2021

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 5, 2026

Description

The Site Reviews WordPress plugin before 5.17.3 does not sanitise and escape the site-reviews parameter of the glsr_action AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and any authenticated users), allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the Tool dashboard of the plugin

Solution

site-reviews-plugin-cve-2021-24973

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24973
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/618854b9-fa85-4302-9a38-ae5cbd7c7b9f?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11885
CVE-2021-24973
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24973
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11885

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