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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: supportcandy: CVE-2021-24880: 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
Jan 4, 2022
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The SupportCandy WordPress plugin before 2.2.7 does not validate and escape the page attribute of its shortcode, which could allow users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks

Solution

supportcandy-plugin-cve-2021-24880
Title
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