LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin <= 4.21.0 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24308
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published May 10, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher captain_hook
Description

The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug lifterlms (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.21.1
Patched Version
  • 4.21.1
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