CVE-2021-24245CWE-79

Stop Spammers < 2021.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

published May 5, 2021

CVSS
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EPSS
6%
Percentile
93.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Stop Spammers WordPress plugin before 2021.9 did not escape user input when blocking requests (such as matching a spam word), outputting it in an attribute after sanitising it to remove HTML tags, which is not sufficient and lead to a reflected Cross-Site Scripting issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.05721 · 93.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2021-05-05T18:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 05 MAY 18:39Z
    Stop Spammers < 2021.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
    cvelistv5