CVE-2021-39349

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Description

The Author Bio Box WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and sanitization via several parameters found in the ~/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 3.3.1. This affects multi-site installations where unfiltered_html is disabled for administrators, and sites where unfiltered_html is disabled.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/vulnerability-advisories/#CVE-2021-39349

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2613798/author-bio-box/tags/3.3.2/includes/admin/class-author-bio-box-admin.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-15

Updated: 2021-10-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium