SCA: security update for woocommerce/woocommerce (GHSA-mp46-7x6q-f28m)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 434418

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- When taxes are enabled, the "Additional tax classes" field was not properly sanitised or escaped before
being output back in the admin dashboard, allowing high privilege users such as admin to use XSS payloads
even when the unfiltered_html is disabled (CVE-2021-24323)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mp46-7x6q-f28m

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434418

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-24323

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/17/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-24323

cwe: CWE-79