Great Quotes <= 1.0.0 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24785
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published September 27, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Vishal Mohan
Description

The Great Quotes WordPress plugin through 1.0.0 does not sanitise and escape the Quote and Author fields of its Quotes, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html is disallowed.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug great-quotes (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.0
Patched Version
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