CVE-2021-39355

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Description

The Indeed Job Importer WordPress plugin is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input validation and sanitization via several parameters found in the ~/indeed-job-importer/trunk/indeed-job-importer.php file which allowed attackers with administrative user access to inject arbitrary web scripts, in versions up to and including 1.0.5. 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-2021-39355

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/indeed-job-importer/trunk/indeed-job-importer.php#L224

https://github.com/BigTiger2020/word-press/blob/main/Indeed%20Job%20Importer.md

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-19

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: 4.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00597