CVE-2021-24308

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Description

The 'State' field of the Edit profile page of the LMS by LifterLMS – Online Course, Membership & Learning Management System Plugin for WordPress plugin before 4.21.1 is not properly sanitised when output in the About section of the profile page, leading to a stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. This could allow low privilege users (such as students) to elevate their privilege via an XSS attack when an admin will view their profile.

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f29f68a5-6575-441d-98c9-867145f2b082

https://github.com/gocodebox/lifterlms/releases/tag/4.21.1

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162856/WordPress-LifterLMS-4.21.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-24

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00238