The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does... · CVE-2021-24745 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

The About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 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 About Author Box WordPress plugin before 1.0.2 does not sanitise and escape the Social Profiles field values before outputting them in attributes, which could allow user with a role as low as contributor to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Nov 29, 2021

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 30, 2021

Last updated Feb 1, 2023