Related Posts for WordPress <= 2.0.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24180
CVSS Medium (5.4)
Publicly Published March 15, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Nguyen Anh Tien
Description

Unvalidated input and lack of output encoding within the Related Posts for WordPress plugin before 2.0.4 lead to a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the 'lang' GET parameter while editing a post, triggered when users with the capability of editing posts access a malicious URL.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug related-posts-for-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.3
Patched Version
  • 2.0.4
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