Related Posts for WordPress <= 2.0.4 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24482
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published May 17, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher R3N0
Description

The Related Posts for WordPress plugin through 2.0.4 does not sanitise its heading_text and CSS settings, allowing high privilege users (admin) to set XSS payloads in them, leading to Stored Cross-Site Scripting issues.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug related-posts-for-wp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.4
Patched Version
  • 2.0.5
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