CVSS 3.1
4.8 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-2021-24444
Medium (4.8) in taxopress taxopress. EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The TaxoPress – Create and Manage Taxonomies, Tags, Categories WordPress plugin before 3.0.7.2 does not sanitise its Taxonomy description field, allowing high privilege users to set JavaScript payload in them even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- taxopress:taxopress
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164604/WordPress-TaxoPress-3.0.7.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164604/WordPress-TaxoPress-3.0.7.1-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/a31321fe-adc6-4480-a220-35aedca52b8b