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The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.19.2 does...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Nov 30, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The WP RSS Aggregator WordPress plugin before 4.19.2 does not properly sanitise and escape the URL to Blacklist field, allowing malicious HTML to be inserted by high privilege users even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, which could lead to Cross-Site Scripting issues.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 29, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 30, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(43rd percentile)

Weaknesses

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-24768

GHSA ID

GHSA-4q83-54pp-rmxj

Source code

No known source code

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