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CVE-2021-24517

MEDIUM 5.4 CVSS 3.1
Published
September 6, 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:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Description

The Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms WordPress plugin before 2021.18 does not escape some of its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to set Cross-Site Scripting payloads in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed

Affected products and versions

  • Unknown Stop Spammers Security | Block Spam Users, Comments, Forms — From 2021.18 (including) to 2021.18 (excluding)
  • trumani stop_spammers — Before 2021.18

References

  • wpscan.com https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f440edd8-94fe-440a-8a5b-e3d24dcfcbc1 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
  • nvd.nist.gov Official NVD record