CVE-2021-24366

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Description

The Admin Columns WordPress plugin before 4.3 and Admin Columns Pro WordPress plugin before 5.5.1 do not sanitise and escape its Label settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

References

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-24366

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/05427156-4d5c-4aeb-add8-1c574fda5c28

https://github.com/codepress/admin-columns/commit/b45571ed21d574d13687213a5002e0c68e4442c7

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-06-21

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: 0.00368