About Author Box < 1.0.2 - Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24745
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published October 26, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Francesco Carlucci
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

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug about-author-box (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.2
Patched Version
  • 1.0.2
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