TaxoPress <= 3.0.7.1 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24444
CVSS Medium (5.5)
Publicly Published June 30, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Akash Rajendra Patil
Description

The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug simple-tags (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.0.7.1
Patched Version
  • 3.0.7.2
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