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WordPress Plugin: wp-user-avatar: CVE-2021-24955: 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

Nov 15, 2021

Added

May 15, 2025

Modified

May 5, 2026

Description

The User Registration, Login Form, User Profile and Membership WordPress plugin before 3.2.3 does not escape the data parameter of the pp_get_forms_by_builder_type AJAX action before outputting it back in an attribute, leading to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue

Solution

wp-user-avatar-plugin-cve-2021-24955

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24955
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/746b9ecc-49c1-4f6e-9f86-4147c98fe325?source=api-prod
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11867
CVE-2021-24955
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24955
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2021-11867

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