CVE-2021-24544

The Responsive WordPress Slider WordPress plugin through 2.2.0 does not sanitise and escape some of the Slider options, allowing Cross-Site Scripting payloads to be set in them. Furthermore, as by default any authenticated user is allowed to create Sliders (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/slider-can-be-changed-from-any-user-even-subscriber/, such settings can be changed in the plugin's settings), this would allow user with a role as low as subscriber to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against logged in admins viewing the slider list and could lead to privilege escalation by creating a rogue admin account for example.

• CVE ID
• CVE-2021-24544

• Assigner
• contact@wpscan.com

• Vulnerability Status
• Analyzed

• Published Version
• 2021-10-25T14:15:10

• Last Modified Date
• 2021-10-28T14:39:07

• Version
• 2.0

• Vector String
• AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

• Access Vector
• NETWORK

• Access Compatibility
• MEDIUM

• Authentication
• SINGLE

• Confidentiality Impact
• NONE

• Integrity Impact
• PARTIAL

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 3.5

• Severity
• LOW

• Exploitability Score
• 6.8

• Impact Score
• 2.9

• Version
• 3.1

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

• Attack Vector
• NETWORK

• Attack Compatibility
• LOW

• Privileges Required
• LOW

• User Interaction
• REQUIRED

• Scope
• CHANGED

• Confidentiality Impact
• LOW

• Availability Impact
• NONE

• Base Score
• 5.4

• Base Severity
• MEDIUM

• Exploitability Score
• 2.3

• Impact Score
• 2.7