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CVE-2021-24450

MEDIUM 4.8 CVSS 3.1
Published
August 2, 2021
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
contact@wpscan.com
Weakness
CWE-79
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) WordPress plugin before 3.1.8 did not sanitise or escape some of its settings before saving them and outputting them back in the page, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set JavaScript payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

Affected WordPress components

A confirmed match is backed by the plugin or theme slug. A possible match is based on the product name only and should be verified.

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown User Registration, User Profiles, Login & Membership – ProfilePress (Formerly WP User Avatar) — From 3.1.8 (including) to 3.1.8 (excluding)
  • properfraction profilepress — Before 3.1.8

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a8625579-fe8f-4bc1-a641-0e26ad141c92 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record