vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: stop-spammer-registrations-plugin: CVE-2021-24245: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Apr 8, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
May 15, 2025

Description

The Stop Spammers WordPress plugin before 2021.9 did not escape user input when blocking requests (such as matching a spam word), outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Solution

stop-spammer-registrations-plugin-plugin-cve-2021-24245
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