WP Shieldon <= 1.6.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24124
CVSS Medium (6.1)
Publicly Published January 18, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Johto Robbie
Description

Unvalidated input and lack of output encoding in the WP Shieldon WordPress plugin, version 1.6.3 and below, leads to Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) when the CAPTCHA page is shown could lead to privileged escalation.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-shieldon (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.6.3
Patched Version
  • 1.6.4
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