CVE-2021-24610: The TranslatePress WordPress plugin before 2.0.9 does not implement a proper sanitisation on the translated strings. The 'trp_sanitize_string' function only…

PriorityP428medium4.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRHUIRSCCLILAN

EXPLOIT

EPSS

5.43%

91.7th percentile

The TranslatePress WordPress plugin before 2.0.9 does not implement a proper sanitisation on the translated strings. The 'trp_sanitize_string' function only removes script tag with a regex, still allowing other HTML tags and attributes to execute javascript, which could lead to authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cozmoslabs	translatepress	< 2.0.9	2.0.9

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.14.8MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.03.5LOWAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

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