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vulnerability

WordPress Plugin: weather-effect: CVE-2021-24709: 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
Sep 7, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The Weather Effect WordPress plugin before 1.3.6 does not properly validate and escape some of its settings (like *_size_leaf, *_flakes_leaf, *_speed) which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues

Solution

weather-effect-plugin-cve-2021-24709
Title
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