CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2021-24494

MEDIUM
5.4
CVSS v3
NVD

Description

The WP Offload SES Lite WordPress plugin before 1.4.5 did not escape some of the fields in the Activity page of the admin dashboard, such as the email's id, subject and recipient, which could lead to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues when an attacker can control any of these fields, like the subject when filling a contact form for example. The XSS will be executed in the context of a logged in admin viewing the Activity tab of the plugin.

How to fix

Remediation Available
wp offload ses liteNVD
Affected:< 1.4.5Fixed in:1.4.5CVE-2021-24494derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged

Impact

ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Exploit Intelligence

0.68%probability of exploitation in 30 days
48thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 48% of all known CVEs.

References

Exploit1

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