CVE-2021-24509
Severity
5.4MEDIUM
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 9
Latest updateMay 24
Description
The Page View Count WordPress plugin before 2.4.9 does not escape the postid parameter of pvc_stats shortcode, allowing users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Stored XSS attacks. A post made by a contributor would still have to be approved by an admin to have the XSS triggered in the frontend, however, higher privilege users, such as editor could exploit this without the need of approval, and even when the blog disallows the unfiltered_html capability.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 2.3 | Impact: 2.7