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

CVE-2021-24850

Medium
5.4/10

Summary

The Insert Pages WordPress plugin before 3.7.0 adds a shortcode that prints out other pages' content and custom fields. It can be used by users with a role as low as Contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks by storing the payload/s in another post's custom fields.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
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  • NONE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting

Cross-Site Scripting, commonly referred to as XSS, is the most dominant class of vulnerabilities. It allows an attacker to inject malicious code into a pregnable web application and victimize its users. The exploitation of such a weakness can cause severe issues such as account takeover, and sensitive data exfiltration. Because of the prevalence of XSS vulnerabilities and their high rate of exploitation, it has remained in the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for years.

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