Post Views Counter <= 1.3.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24613
CVSS Medium (4.8)
Publicly Published August 23, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Tung Duong Dinh
Description

The Post Views Counter WordPress plugin before 1.3.5 does not sanitise or escape its Post Views Label settings, which could allow high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks in the frontend even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug post-views-counter (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.3.4
Patched Version
  • 1.3.5
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