Site Reviews <= 5.17.2 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE	CVE-2021-24973
CVSS	High (7.2)
Publicly Published	December 6, 2021
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Krzysztof Zając

Description

The Site Reviews WordPress plugin before 5.17.3 does not sanitise and escape the site-reviews parameter of the glsr_action AJAX action (available to unauthenticated and any authenticated users), allowing them to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the Tool dashboard of the plugin

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	site-reviews (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 5.17.2
Patched Version	5.17.3

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