vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: stop-spammer-registrations-plugin: CVE-2021-24517: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Aug 9, 2021 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 30, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 9, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026
Description
The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed
Solution
stop-spammer-registrations-plugin-plugin-cve-2021-24517
References
Rapid7 Labs
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