Youzify <= 1.0.6 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2021-24443
CVSS Medium (6.4)
Publicly Published June 28, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Phu Tran
Description

The About Me widget of the Youzify – BuddyPress Community, User Profile, Social Network & Membership WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not properly sanitise its Biography field, allowing any authenticated user to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in it, which will be executed when viewing the affected user profile. This could allow a low privilege user to gain unauthorised access to the admin side of the blog by targeting an admin, inducing them to view their profile with a malicious payload adding a rogue account for example.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug youzify (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.0.6
Patched Version
  • 1.0.7
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