The WP HTML Author Bio WordPress plugin through 1.2.0 does not sanitise the HTML allowed in the Bio of users, allowing them to use malicious JavaScript code, which will be executed when anyone visit a post in the frontend made by such user. As a result, user with a role as low as author could perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against users, which could potentially lead to privilege escalation when an admin view the related post/s.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: WPScan

Published: 2021-10-11T10:45:27

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:35:20.073Z

Reserved: 2021-01-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-24545

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2021-10-11T11:15:08.633

Modified: 2021-10-15T16:32:49.727

Link: CVE-2021-24545

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